WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists pondering the cause - perhaps some unknown factor ...

Astronomers have confirmed that a galaxy called MoM-z14 was already shining roughly 280 million years after the Big Bang, making it the most distant spectroscopically verified object ever observed.

A galaxy seen almost edge-on, wrapped in thick lanes of dust and glowing with unusually intense star formation, has long ...

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An international team of researchers from the University of Bonn has recently examined new data and current images obtained ...

For the past decade, scientists have been trying to get to the bottom of what seemed like a major inconsistency in the universe. The universe expands over time, but how fast it's expanding has seemed ...

From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes have ever seen. In May, astronomers announced that Webb detected the most ...

In a landmark achievement, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet. About the same mass as Saturn, it was found in a star system about 111 light-years distant. It’s also the ...