A space telescope and AI teamed up to analyze a million galaxies and learn what triggers supermassive black holes the most.

In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...

Astronomers have found oxygen in the farthest, and thus the earliest, galaxy ever seen. This marks the most distant detection of oxygen ever made by humanity. This early galaxy, designated ...

Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The galaxy is 13.4 billion light-years away, meaning it formed in the early ...

A boom in satellites is brightening the night sky and hindering astronomers’ ability to study distant galaxies, sharpening ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

The precise location in the night sky of the galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0, an extremely tiny dot in the Fornax constellation. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Carniani et al./S. Schouws et al/JWST: NASA, ESA, ...

This is an artist’s impression of JADES-GS-z14-0, which as of today is the most distant confirmed galaxy. Galaxies in the early Universe tend to be clumpy and irregular. Supernova explosions in this ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are some of the most perplexing phenomena in nature. Even though astronomers have detected about ...

To judge from the headlines, astronomy is nothing more than an ongoing quest to set a Guinness World Record. It’s always seems to be about the tiniest galaxy, or the most Earthlike planet, or the ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

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