Most of the universe cannot be seen with any telescope, and that is not because scientists lack powerful tools. It is because ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations have revealed a galaxy that shouldn’t exist, a complex spiral galaxy named ...

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

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

If not in visible stars and galaxies, the most likely hiding place for the matter is in the dark space between galaxies.

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a new kind of galactic portrait, revealing a luminous thread of gas and newborn ...

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

The galaxy – seen as it appeared when the Universe was just 1.5 billion years old – shows a mature, organised structure at a time when most early galaxies were believed to be irregular and chaotic, ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Indian astronomers have identified a surprisingly mature, Milky Way-like galaxy from the universe’s early era. Named ...