Two independent groups of scientists have detected oxygen in the farthest known galaxy just 300 million years after the Big ...

Cleostratus was a truly pioneering Greek astronomer who lived on the small Aegean island of Tenedos in the 6th century BC.

Seleucus of Seleucia was an ancient astronomer who defended heliocentrism, arguing that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates on ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered the Firefly Sparkle galaxy, a young cosmic entity that may resemble the Milky ...

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...

Scientists have made the record-breaking detection of oxygen in an ancient galaxy that existed just 300 million years after ...

The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...

"Even today, our understanding of star formation is still developing; comprehending how stars formed in the earlier universe is even more challenging." ...

Step aside, Santa Monica. It seems that Mars once had beaches that would give the Californian coast a run for its money.

Astronomers have been forced to reassess the ... back to the "cosmic graveyard" of a massive "dead" galaxy filled with ancient stars located 2 billion light-years from Earth.

Astronomers have made a remarkable discovery on Mars that could revolutionise our understanding of the red planet's history.