The discovery of thousands more galaxies with stars ringing their main disks could help astronomers study galactic evolution ...

"You think that these things should not exist together, but there it is right in front of you, and it’s undeniable," ...

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...

New paper led by UC Santa Cruz undergraduate suggests that long-dormant galaxies deemed to be dead may actually be stunted by ...

After combing through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of ...

An amateur astronomer from Italy has discovered five new dwarf galaxies around a distant spiral galaxy — a spiral that's one of the largest galaxies in the sky over Earth. His name is Giuseppe ...

Give them a constellation prize. A group of international scientists discovered three ultra-massive “Red Monster” galaxies capable of forming their own stars faster than the average nebula. The ...

An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky Way—already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. The ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed look yet at faraway galaxies at the peak of their youth, an active time when the adolescent galaxies were fervently producing new stars.

Scientists are peering into the past and uncovering new clues about the early universe. Since light takes a long time to travel through space, they are now able to see how galaxies looked billions of ...

Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA's ...

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about ...