but we can try to imagine what the edge of the universe might be like, if there is one. Before we start, we need to go back in time. The night sky has seemed to have always looked the same ...

This one cataclysmic event gave rise to our entire Universe, but it seems we can never truly know what it looked like. Science writer and astrophysicist Adam Becker explains why we cannot see the ...

This one appears to us now as it looked when the universe was about five billion years old. The sun formed within a cloud of gas in a spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. A vast disk of gas and ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe ... astronomers look to quasars to study ...

Poor resolution has impeded studies of submillimeter-bright galaxies in the early ... universe and has been an obstacle to understanding their physical and dynamical properties. Studying galaxies ...

Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the Universe, according to ...

So, while water was rare in the early universe, it is relatively common now. But a new study suggests that isn't the case. Astronomers categorize stars into populations depending on their age and ...

While spiral galaxies like our Milky Way are flat, the most ancient galaxies in the early universe ... worldwide looked at some of the earliest galaxies in the universe. Using the ALMA array ...

This innovation could help uncover secrets of the early universe, including the Epoch of Recombination, thus providing significant insights into cosmological processes. “CRR has never been ...