Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs).

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

The observable universe is a ball-shaped region of the universe comprising all matter that can be observed from Earth or its space-based telescopes and exploratory probes at the present time, because ...

The atmosphere, a thin veil of molecules enveloping Earth, reaches about 20 miles (32 kilometers) above the planet's surface.

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more ...

Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe ...

But from where Earth sits in the observable universe, our view extends more than 13 billion years into the past. Far outside our Local Group, astronomers have found galaxies so metal-poor and so ...

Two Indian physicists have theoretically proposed a path-breaking idea which could fundamentally change the current view ...

Our journey to comprehend the Universe’s edge begins with the concept of the observable Universe. This term refers to the portion of the cosmos that we can theoretically detect from Earth.

Astronomers setting their sights halfway across the observable universe recently identified the largest amount of individual stars ever detected so far away – a feat once considered near-impossible.