A team of astronomers has attempted to track the path of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS back into the past, tracing its path ...

Astronomers have spotted the brightest known object in the universe, and it’s a quasar powered by the fastest-growing black hole on record, according to a new study. Initially classified as a star, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2022, has discovered something that may shatter current theories about the universe's early development.

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Not so far away and long ago: A galaxy near the Big Dipper is no longer the "Most Distant Object Known," according to astronomers who have made new measurements of its distance. The team, led by ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

Scientists may have glimpsed some of the oldest material in the universe. According to a new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, researchers found an unidentified object nearly 13.5 billion light years ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a ...

A gamma-ray burst from about 13 billion light years away has become the most distant object in the known universe. Edo Berger of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics offers his insight ...

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