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 record-breaking galaxy is revealing secrets about the first stars and their unexpected chemical fingerprints.

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

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

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.

"We see for the first time the effect of a quasar's radiation directly on the internal structure of the gas in an otherwise ...

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, ...