A consistent pattern in the deep universe Lior Shamir, an associate professor of computer science at Kansas State University, ...

Astronomers working with the James Webb Space Telescope report that a massive galaxy from the early universe shows no sign of ...

For decades, astronomers have pictured galaxies and their central black holes growing together. In the familiar story, a ...

Astronomers have identified one of the most distant candidate galaxies known to leak ionizing radiation—the same kind of ...

Astronomers searching the deep sky with the European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid space telescope have turned up the oldest ...

Peering far into the distant, high-redshift universe, the James Webb telescope has discovered an abundance of small red ...

Astronomers have uncovered 31 of the oldest known quasars, including the two earliest ever detected, shining from a time when ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite galaxies—up to 100 more than we currently know. These elusive "orphan" galaxies have ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's mid-infrared instrument shows the Centaurus A galaxy's weird glowing shapes at its core.

An intense demolition derby of at least six galaxies smashing into one another has been found lurking in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope.

The Bullet Cluster is considered important evidence for the existence of dark matter. Now a research team believes it can ...

The cosmos may not be broken after all. Soon after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) started its science mission in 2022, astronomers discovered a half-dozen galaxies near the edge of the universe ...