Little red dots appear all over images from the James Webb Space Telescope. They may belong to a new cosmic category called black hole stars.

Little red dots have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in JWST data from the Universe’s deep past. Their ‘powering engines’ might resemble a newly discovered phenomenon dubbed a “black hole st...

The Office of Management and Budget has proposed to completely restructure federal funding for science as we know it. In this bite, we review the most relevant points in the proposal and describe how ...

Astronomers are racing to understand mysterious ancient objects that pepper James Webb Space Telescope images

You have never seen the Sculptor Galaxy like this before.

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Short-cut method pinpoints a galaxy apparently formed from just hydrogen and helium

Researchers at the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research have proposed a way to solve two cosmic mysteries with a single underlying explanation

Early James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) results suggest a high level of star formation in the first 500 million years of the Universe. A study of the available mass from dark matter haloes shows that ...