A global team led by UMass Amherst identified dusty, star-forming galaxies nearly 13 billion years old, bridging gaps between early ultrabright and quiescent galaxies in the universe.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated 70 dusty galaxies at the very edge of the universe that ...

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of dusty, star-forming galaxies at the far edges of the universe that formed ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent ...

James Webb Space Telescope detects a candidate jellyfish galaxy 5 billion years after the Big Bang, providing insights into ram-pressure stripping and early galaxy evolution.

Discover seven unusual galaxies defying scientific predictions, from impossibly bright early universe objects to astrophysics ...

The curious minds at What If discover the universe’s evolution in just ten minutes, covering the Big Bang, galaxy formation, and cosmic expansion.

"This data provides us with rare insight into how galaxies were transformed in the early universe." ...

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

An international collaboration using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) has published an exceptionally detailed radio sky map, revealing 13.7 million cosmic sources and delivering the most complete ...

Discover the hidden ways evolution may have limited human perception.