Astronomers may finally have laid eyes on a population of enormous but elusive galaxies in the early universe. These hefty, star-forming galaxies are shrouded in dust, which hid them from previous ...

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

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

Two mysterious galaxies, devoid of dark matter, could have a smashing origin story. About 8 billion years ago, researchers propose, two dwarf galaxies slammed into one another. That cosmic crash ...

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

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 ...

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 than 13 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...