Our best shot for this is JWST, the most powerful space telescope ever built, optimized for peering farther back into the early Universe than any telescope before with its infrared-sensitive eye.

In the primordial darkness, after the Big Bang, nothing drifted but a vast sea of hydrogen and helium. It wasn't until stars came along, born from crushing densities in that clumping gas, that heavier ...

There’s more to the universe than meets the eye, he found. His studies led astronomy to the dark side, changing our view of what’s out there. By Dennis Overbye Jeremiah Ostriker, an ...

03/28/2025 March 28, 2025 In Chile’s Atacama Desert, the universe is coming into focus. When it’s finished, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the most powerful optical telescope ever, will ...