On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

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

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope has discovered 102 new colors in distant galaxies, revealing hidden chemical signatures and ...

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, ...

Structures known as "zippers" and "twisters" in the early universe may explain why dwarf galaxies tend to line up with each other, as well as hint at how dark matter operates in the universe.

The huge elliptical galaxy ESO 325-G004 shone 10,000 times brighter when it formed than it does today. These types of galaxies briefly lit up the entire universe—and contributed to the ...

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 Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, or SPHEREx to use its ...