Astronomers have puzzled for decades over how massive elliptical galaxies appeared so early in cosmic history. The standard ...

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of ...

Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

What: New analyses using early observations from the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission examine how galaxy mergers ...

The young galaxy cluster existed about 12.8 billion years ago and has an estimated mass 20 trillion times that of the sun ...

Supermassive black holes, often considered the universe's most extreme objects, are now seen as cosmic predators that can slow star growth in galaxies millions of light-years ...

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

Among a "field of galaxies;" the James Webb Space Telescope captured spiral galaxy LEDA 2046648, a billion light-years from ...

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...