A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international experts has mapped out the largest collection of galaxy ...

The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several hundred million years after the Big Bang. Now, it's sensed light from a ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies — both possessing roughly as many stars as our Milky Way — careening toward ...

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

The pair — dueling it out 11 billion light-years away in space — has given astronomers their first detailed look at a galaxy ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Scientists using the XRISM satellite have uncovered a major clue to one of astronomy’s longstanding mysteries: why galaxy ...

A new, more detailed study of 1,000 distant galaxies explains why some gas-rich galaxies don’t produce as many stars as you’d ...

Structures known as "zippers" and "twisters" in the early universe may explain why dwarf galaxies tend to line up with each ...