Stars are the original nuclear fusion reactors. As it evolves, a star continuously fuses hydrogen, helium, and—if it becomes big enough—heavier elements, releasing the energy created into space as ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

A collection of 300 unusually bright objects in deep space may contain galaxies that formed in the early universe. These objects, captured in infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

The universe has a knack for throwing curveballs at astronomers. Just when scientists think they’ve got cosmic mechanics ...

The discovery could challenge current ideas about how galaxies formed in the early universe. Hundreds of unexpectedly energetic objects have been discovered throughout the distant universe, possibly ...

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Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the universe, more than 13 billion years ago. The black hole lies at the center of a ...

With the aid of a multinational network of radio telescopes, scientists have been able to detect the lowest-mass dark object ever found in the universe. The mysterious object, roughly one million ...

Dark matter is believed to make up more than 80 percent of all matter in the universe, but what it actually is remains a mystery. Now, astronomers have found something that gives us a major clue. This ...

James Webb telescope may have found the first stars in the universe, new study claims Under the early-galaxy interpretation, Capotauro was consistently found to have formed around 100 million years ...