Astronomers have witnessed the earliest gathering of galaxies ever seen, taking place about 12.8 billion years ago. The ...

Astronomers have spotted a mysteriously mature “baby cluster” of galaxies in the early universe, scarcely a billion years ...

NASA has confirmed its sightings of the farthest known galaxy to date, providing an unprecedented look back into the early ...

Discover seven unusual galaxies defying scientific predictions, from impossibly bright early universe objects to astrophysics ...

Some galaxies in the early universe were absolute powerhouses, churning out stars at rates that would dwarf the Milky Way's ...

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

Yale researchers co-authored the study uncovering “ultra-massive” galaxies formed briefly after the Big Bang, the creation of the universe. The discovery was based on observations from the James Webb ...

The study of galaxies and their star formation processes remains a cornerstone of modern astrophysics. Galaxies are the fundamental building blocks of the Universe, each hosting a complex interplay of ...

An international team of astronomers, led by Weichen Wang of the University of Milan, Italy, discovered a massive and ...

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...