We may finally know what first lit up the cosmic dawn in the early Universe. According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early ...

Opinion Elon Musk's Starlink flying circus is many things. It's a multi-thousand satellite global internet provider, growing by hundreds of new orbiting relays a month. It's part of intricate ...

Astronomers have used Earth-based telescopes to observe "Cosmic Dawn", which is the early period in the universe's history, around 800 million years after the Big Bang, when the first stars and ...

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What can the Cosmic Dawn, which is when scientists hypothesize the first galaxies and stars formed after the Big Bang, teach scientists about the formation and evolution of the early universe? This is ...

For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion years to see how the first stars in the universe affect light emitted from the Big Bang. Using telescopes ...

Dark stars are some of the most exciting astrophysical objects to possibly exist, as their study would allow for a determination of the physical properties of the dark matter particle, and thus ...

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 ...

Telescopes from the CLASS project in Chile detect faint microwave signals from the early universe. (Deniz Valle and Jullianna Couto/Johns Hopkins University) (CN) — High in Chile’s Andes Mountains, ...

A paper links dark stars to Webb telescope puzzles involving bright sources, dust-free galaxies, and early black holes.