Most distant star to date spotted – but how much further back in time could we see?
The Hubble Space Telescope could gaze back 13.4 billion years, and with the JWST we expect to improve on this possibly to 13.55 billion years.
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The oldest star discovery tells much about the early universe
The discovery of an ancient star formed approximately 13.6-billion years ago just after the Big Bang is telling us much about the early universe. The star – designated SMSS J031300.36-670839.3 – lies within…
What would it have been like to witness the beginning of the universe?
From blindingly bright and burning hot to pleasantly ‘candle-lit’, the first years of the universe would have been spectacular to see.
Your smile’s cosmic history: we discovered the origin of fluoride in early galaxies
Tracing the cosmic origin of toothpaste, scientists got a glimpse into the surprising chemistry of early galaxies.
Signal detected from the first stars in the universe, with a hint that dark matter was involved
Signals from the first stars to form in the universe have been picked up by a table-sized detector in a west Australian desert. The find also hints at an early interaction with dark matter.
‘We just discovered the impossible’: how giant baby galaxies are shaking up our understanding of the early Universe
The discovery of massive, early galaxies could force scientists to rethink how the first galaxies formed after the Big Bang.
Is the James Webb Space Telescope finding the furthest, oldest, youngest or first galaxies? An astronomer explains
James Webb has spotted extremely distant galaxies formed soon after the Big Bang, but are they old or young? Or is this the wrong question to ask?
Back to where we started: tracing the origins of galaxies
Today, the University of Melbourne’s Professor Stuart Wyithe was awarded the 2011 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year for his work on the origin of galaxies. The multi-award winning…
Nobel Prize in Physics: James Peebles, master of the universe, shares award
The Princeton cosmologist helped pioneer our current model of the universe and began a whole new branch of physics.
Three billion‑year‑old galaxy seen as it was
A spiral galaxy in the early universe, billions of years before many other spiral galaxies formed, has been witnessed for…
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