The James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of these violent bundles of gas and stars. The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they ...

Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic makeover that transformed the early universe into the one we know today. White ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its present age, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how ...

Galaxies are far more than the sum of their stars. Long before stars even formed, dark matter clumped up and drew regular matter together with its gravity, providing the invisible scaffolding upon ...

Astronomers have exposed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to its first glimpses of the universe's most violent and gory events: stars being ripped apart and devoured by black holes. The powerful ...

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

The Hubble Space Telescope zooms in on NGC 45, a nearly invisible galaxy where bright pink nebulae mark regions of active star birth. This rare type of galaxy may hold answers to how galaxies form and ...

A team of astronomers looking at galaxies in the universe’s distant past have discovered nine young, compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. Imagine receiving an ...

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