Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early universe. It’s a cosmic giant whose light has travelled over 12 billion years to ...

W hen astronomers first spotted Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1, it caused a little excitement. The group of stars at the edge of the ...

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps ...

(via Big Think) "We are all in orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. How big is this collection of stars? Somewhere between 200 and 400 billion suns in the Milky Way galaxy, about 100,000 ...

"We are all in orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. How big is this collection of stars? Somewhere between 200 and 400 billion suns in the Milky Way galaxy, about 100,000 light years ...

This scenario is sometimes called the “heat death” or the “big freeze”, and it’s a straightforward consequence of our best working theory for how the universe behaves. But if you asked ...