Overlooked galaxies from when the universe was younger than 2 billion years old could be the ancestors of other ancient and modern monster galaxies.

Scientists have discovered a gamma ray explosion outside our galaxy that's not only exceptionally powerful, but also ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in the first billion years after the Big Bang, moving one step closer to ...

What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first ...

Scientists are debating whether a trail of galaxies reveals the origins of two weird dark matter–free galaxies.

Rochester Institute of Technology scientists have once again used data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as part of the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey to change the way ...

Dive into the fascinating crossroads of astronomy and astrology — where science meets symbolism, and the sky tells two very ...

New observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are expanding astronomers’ understanding of the ways in which galaxies continuously recycle immense volumes of hydrogen gas and heavy elements. This ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest and most distant galaxies confirmed to date using data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope captured light emitted by these galaxies more ...

New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are expanding astronomers' understanding of the ways in which galaxies continuously recycle immense volumes of hydrogen gas and heavy elements ...

Hundreds of galaxies have been playing a cosmic game of hide and seek, and astronomers just tagged them "it". Using radio telescopes to peer through the dense plane of the Milky Way, researchers have ...