Galaxy merger is a crucial process in galactic evolution that has happened since the first galaxies came into being. Now JWST ...

JWST has revealed a strange early universe filled with ultra-bright “blue monster” galaxies, mysterious “little red dots,” ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky Way came into being." ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including unusually bright galaxies, rapidly forming black holes, and compact objects that ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence ...

Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, because that's where the conditions are right for stars to form. Within galaxies, stars form inside cold, dense molecular gas clouds like those ...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see ...

The discovery reinforces established theories about space. There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to astronomers. As many as ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

NASA released exciting information on Thursday regarding the discovery of "monster stars" and "spiral galaxies." Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers were able to identify nine "monster stars ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, ...