NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has once again redefined the boundaries of cosmic observation. A recent study published via ...

Space keeps records: 13.5 billion years of travel does not make a galaxy too far away to start an argument in its light. One of those arguments has now been anchored by the James Webb Space Telescope ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For hundreds of a millions of years, the universe existed in the dark ages—an epoch when only primordial ...

Cosmic reionization denotes the transformative epoch when the first luminous sources emerged, ending the cosmic dark ages by ionising the pervasive neutral hydrogen. This period, which encompasses ...

New research suggests that reionization alone is not able to stop star formation in dwarf galaxies, as had been expected. A team of astronomers has provided evidence suggesting that reionization alone ...

New analysis of data taken by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Planck spacecraft of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has revealed that the “epoch of reionization” occurred much later than ...