Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

A galaxy in the early universe was rich with oxygen, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how early ...

While there's no shortage of mysteries surrounding the formation of the universe, scientists may have figured out the answer ...

For decades, scientists suspected this ion played a critical role in cooling the early cosmos, helping the first gas clouds ...

At first, the early universe's light was "trapped," and it took several hundred thousand years for it to escape. Then, it took about 100 million years for stars to form.

Scientists have recreated the first molecule ever to form and found that it likely played a much bigger role in the birth of early stars than previously thought. The universe was unimaginably hot ...

What if the Big Bang wasn’t truly the beginning? A team of cosmologists is using the power of supercomputers to push past the ...

In a first, scientists have recreated the formation of the first ever molecules in the universe to learn more about early ...

A new collaborative project dubbed the COSMOS-Web field has compiled the most comprehensive cosmic map ever, including images of the early universe as far back as 13.5 billion years.