"There is a growing chasm between theory and observation related to the early universe, which presents compelling questions ...

"JADES-ID1 is giving us new evidence that the universe was in a huge hurry to grow up." ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new massive and quiescent ...

Dating to only a billion years after the big bang, JADES-ID1 may be the earliest, most distant galaxy protocluster astronomers have ever seen ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a new dwarf galaxy, which received designation ...

Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

NASA confirms galaxy MoM-z14 observed by the James Webb Space Telescope formed 280 million years after the Big Bang using ...

A surprising new set of objects in space with mismatched parts has been discovered by University of Missouri astronomers, ...

NASA astronomers used AI to examine Hubble Legacy Archive data, identifying over 1,300 unusual galaxies and other anomalies, including gravitational lenses and mergers.

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

NGC 7722, captured by Hubble, sits somewhere between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy.