If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...

Gas within the cluster, which existed merely 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, is at least five times hotter than ...

Some of the most puzzling worlds in our telescopes’ catalogs may not be worlds at all, but relics from the first instants ...

A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

A recent study provides answers to three seemingly disparate yet pressing cosmic dawn puzzles. Specifically, the authors show ...

A new investigation of the early Universe led by Poland's National Centre for Nuclear Research has just found that there may ...

Professor Takaaki Kajita, recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, delivered a public lecture on gravitational waves at ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Dalhousie University have found a young galaxy cluster that appears far ...

A galaxy cluster in the early universe is 10 times hotter than it ought to be, which may reshape how we think these enormous ...

A newly discovered galaxy cluster, blazing with unexpectedly hot gas just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, is forcing ...