Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it ...

Astronomers detect a million-sun-mass dark object in deep space using gravitational lensing. This hidden mass may be dark matter or a dormant dwarf galaxy, supporting cold dark matter models and ...

With the aid of a multinational network of telescopes, scientists have been able to detect the lowest-mass dark object ever ...

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

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the ...

European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, with additional data from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Using the European Southern Observatory 's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have caught it pulling in gas and ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be out of view of Earth, but orbiters on Mars were able to recently get a look at it.

Learn about the ongoing mystery of 300 bright objects discovered in deep space, some of which may be galaxies that formed in the early universe. Jack Knudson is an assistant editor for Discover ...

A collection of 300 unusually bright objects in deep space may contain galaxies that formed in the early universe. These objects, captured in infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

It's like traveling back in time: The James Webb telescope allows researchers to look enormously far into the past. Up to 13 billion light years - in other words, until shortly before the Big Bang. An ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...