Shortly after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began scientific operations, astronomers announced that they had discovered galaxies in the early universe that were too big, bright and full of…
This illustration shows a galaxy forming just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, when the gas was a mixture of transparent and opaque during the era of…
A variation on the theory of quantum gravity—the unification of quantum mechanics and Einstein general relativity - could help solve one of the biggest puzzles in cosmology, new research suggests.Scientists…
Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. New research suggests that the KBC void is an expanse of relatively empty space 2 billion light-years…