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James Webb has spotted mysterious little red dots in the early universe that may actually be hidden black holes, challenging ...

When analyzing early universe data, the Standard Model of Cosmology suggests that the universe should be more “clumpy” that ...

Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A mysterious reddish object that formed only 90 million years after the Big Bang was observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. If it is a galaxy, ...

Astronomers use powerful telescopes, often housed at observatories, to peer into the farthest depths of our universe. To do this successfully, observatories often have to be placed at high elevations, ...

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There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...