Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe was only half as old as it is now. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Tel ...

When Pagan and DePasquale first receive the images, they appear in black and white. The colors are added to the image later, ...

For millions of years following the Big Bang, after the universe’s roiling soup of particles had cooled, the cosmos was a dark and boring place. There were no stars to make light. No familiar ...

Astronomers setting their sights halfway across the observable universe recently identified the largest amount of individual stars ever detected ... far away usually look like a diffuse, fuzzy ...