Recent James Webb Space Telescope data confirms a decade-old theory that the universe's earliest supermassive black holes ...

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Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." Credit: T.

A surprising new paper suggests that the universe's expected lifespan is just 33 billion years, and that the cosmos will start dying in less than a third of that time. However, this is only one ...

James Webb Space Telescope captures unprecedented views of the early universe, unveiling new space findings that illuminate the cosmic dawn and galaxy formation. Pixabay, BlenderTimer The James Webb ...

Cosmologists are quietly confronting a possibility that would have sounded absurd a generation ago: the standard picture of a smooth, empty vacuum may be wrong unless space itself behaves like a ...

Though sci-fi movies would have us believe that space is incredibly cold — even freezing — space itself isn't exactly cold. In fact, it doesn't actually have a temperature at all. Temperature is a ...

Chris Impey has received funding from NASA, NSF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Templeton Foundation. If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which ...