Astronomers have uncovered signs of a possible new class of galaxies—so faint that they elude standard observation techniques ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed that the first star believed to have swallowed a planet did not expand to ...

Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is ...

Researchers mapped a far-infrared landscape brimming with nearly 2,000 galaxies. There may be "hidden galaxies" lurking just out of sight.

SPHEREx, NASA’s new space telescope, just opened its eyes to the universe and delivered its very first images from space.

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

The most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the ...

New JWST research unveils the surprising influence of strong magnetic fields on star formation within the Milky Way's central ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

There’s more to the universe than meets the eye, he found. His studies led astronomy to the dark side, changing our view of ...

Scientists discover ancient galaxy created early transparent bubbles, challenging cosmic timeline of universe formation.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant quiescent galaxy ever seen – one that had ...