In the beginning, galaxies were lacking in chemical and metal abundances, according to a team of astronomers that recently used a telescope to study the ancient universe. Though the galaxies in the ...

LOS ANGELES — Scientists have found the most distant space object yet observed, a galaxy born just 500 million years after the Big Bang. The record-breaking discovery, reported Wednesday in the ...

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Mysterious light appears in the images pulled from the depths of the universe using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). And now, it finally has an explanation. JWST, the next-generation observatory ...

JADES-GS-z14-0, the farthest known galaxy, has oxygen, a heavier element than scientists would expect to find just 300 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser illustration ...

When completed, the Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO) will be the world's most sensitive and most powerful radio telescope — that is, if SpaceX's Starlink satellites don't ruin its view. When ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed the dramatic dance between a supermassive black hole-powered quasar and merging galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

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