For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion years to see how the first stars ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected powerful black hole jets emanating from a galaxy 11.6 billion light-years away.

For the first time, astronomers have used a ground-based telescope to observe polarized microwave light from the universe's ...

A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from NASA's ...

Deep in the voids, however, dark energy takes over. It's the only thing left. This means that although the voids lack matter, ...

The black hole is located 11.6 billion light-years from Earth, with its powerful jet illuminated by the leftover glow from ...

One of the Holy Grails in cosmology is a look back at the earliest epochs of cosmic history. Unfortunately, the universe's first few hundred thousand years are shrouded in an impenetrable fog.

"This shocking result means that we now need to revisit the very foundations of everything we know about cosmology," said the reseachers.

Such a mission could let researchers peer through all the light there is, all the way back to the universe’s very first light ...

For 75 years, scientists have consistently pondered the Fermi Paradox, which asks why we don’t hear from other civilizations ...

Part of the reason scientists have settled on the Big Bang theory as the best explanation of how the Universe came into being ...

The earliest galaxies may have scrambled our reading of the Universe. A new study challenges the traditional interpretation of the cosmic microwave background, this fossil light from the Big Bang.