Cosmology

From the Catholic priest who pioneered it, to how we can (almost) see it, here are 5 fascinating facts about the Big Bang.

An infant star system contains the basic building block for organic chemistry, new James Webb Space Telescope images reveal.

Carl Sagan famously proclaimed that humans are 'made of star stuff'. Here's what he meant — and why it's true.

Scientists have found a white dwarf that is cooling and crystallizing into a giant diamond.

The enormous gamma-ray burst, called the Brightest Of All Time (or BOAT), may be powered by its strange jet structure, scientists say.

The 1.5-million-light-year-long gas trail was caused by a group of galaxies moving 3 million miles per hour

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered evidence of complex organic molecules in a galaxy 12.3 billion light-years away — the furthest and oldest ever detected.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the faintest galaxy ever seen, burning away the pitch-black gloom of the early universe 13 billion years ago.

Light is faster than anything else in the known universe, though its speed can change depending on what it's passing through.

Space, outer space, and deep space — which is further out, and which is the real final frontier?