Introduction -- 1. A Clever and Determined Wife -- 2. The Labyrinths of Heaven -- 3. Martyr to Astronomy -- 4. The Art of Navigation -- 5. Celebrities -- 6. Queen of Science -- 7. In the Shadow of ...

What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first stars and galaxies form? Those are questions that astronomers now have a ...

Tiny red objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are offering scientists new insights into the origins of galaxies in the universe—and may represent an entirely new class of ...

Babylonian astronomers created early star catalogs as early as the 12th century BCE, later expanding these to include celestial motions of the Sun, Moon, and planets by 1000 BCE. The Messier (M) ...

Astronomers hunting for evidence of the light from the first stars and galaxies have found that the universe was warm, rather than cold, before it "lit up." ...

The black hole appears to be growing at about 2.4 times the Eddington limit, which means it is consuming the equivalent of 300 to 3,000 Suns’ worth of material every year. This is the fastest rate ...

Much has been learned about the early universe from studies of the remnant light that suffuses the cosmos. Studies of this ancient, leftover radiation, called the cosmic microwave background, allow ...