A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers.

A team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, has used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to reveal, for the first time, what lies in the

Researchers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, dating from the dawn of the universe, and found that it is ‘eating’ its host galaxy to death.

Researchers have found a new way to measure dark energy – the mysterious force that makes up more than two-thirds of the universe and is responsible for its

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a partnership between

Little ‘hurricanes’ that form in the discs of gas and dust around young stars can be used to study certain aspects of planet formation, even for smaller

A major telescope upgrade has peered through to the distant Universe to reveal the spectra of a pair of galaxies 280 million light years away from Earth.

New findings confirm that JWST has surpassed the Hubble telescope in its ability to observe the early Universe

Researchers have been able to make some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist, in one of the first astrophysical studies of the period in the

A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of