Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected by the James Webb Space Telescope for Cycle 1. The team, led by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has publicly released its full ...

As the James Webb Space Telescope reveals supermassive black holes are on the move – at two million miles per hour no less – ...

A group of scientists may have stumbled upon a radical new way to do cosmology. Cosmologists usually determine the composition of the universe by observing as much of it as possible. But these ...

Astronomers believe this barred spiral galaxy could be the oldest example of its kind ever observed. Research led by Daniel ...

ALMA radio image of the Wolfe Disk, seen when the universe was only ten percent of its current age. [Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), M. Neeleman; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello] Most massive disk galaxies ...

The ancient barred spiral galaxy 'COSMOS-74706' is observed for its light and stellar bar, placing it on a timeline dating ...

The cosmos, in its infinite complexity, has once again defied expectations. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered something extraordinary: a primordial galaxy, ...

It's unsettling to flip through a website scientists made that details the observable universe. I highly recommend doing it. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, ...

If your life sometimes seems directionless, you might legitimately blame the universe. According to the key tenets of modern physics, the cosmos is “isotropic” at multi-billion-light-year ...