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

NASA and JAXA discovered a fascinating superstorm from a black hole that may reshape galaxies by triggering star formation ...

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

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

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

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

Small companion galaxies around our neighboring Andromeda galaxy appear to stretch and point toward Earth in a fascinating ...

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 ...

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?