Picture the Universe's ancient beginnings. In the vast darkness, light was emitted from a particular galaxy only 460 million years…
Studying the history of science shows how often serendipity plays a role in some of the most important discoveries. Sometimes,…
When the James Webb Space Telescope was launched at the end of 2021, we expected stunning images and illuminating scientific…
During the Universe's Dark Ages, dense primordial gas absorbed and scattered light, prohibiting it from travelling. Only when the first…
The very early Universe was a dark place. It was packed with light-blocking hydrogen and not much else. Only when…
The observation programs for Cycle 2 of the James Webb Space Telescope have just been announced, and they are a…
Thanks to the JWST, galaxies that existed during the Cosmic Dawn have been observed for the first time!
We can gaze out into regions in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way and find orgies of star birth. The…
Black holes swallow everything—including light—which explains why we can't see them. But we can observe their immediate surroundings and learn…
The latest results from the HERA Collaboration suggest how the earliest galaxies in the Universe slowly dispelled the cosmic "Dark…