The James Webb Space Telescope has identified an extraordinary system of five galaxies merging when the universe was only ...

A recent breakthrough in astronomical research,published in Nature Astronomy, has provided a detailed glimpse into the internal structure of an ancient galaxy, thanks to one of the strongest ...

Astronomers have announced a candidate for the universe's first generation of stars. While sifting through observations of the earliest known galaxies, they flagged one small dwarf galaxy, ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant galaxy forming stars 180x faster than the Milky Way, revealing how early galaxies grew rapidly in the young universe. (Nanowerk News) Astronomers have uncovered a ...

Astronomers at The University of Manchester have played a leading role in the discovery of a new cosmic object that is much ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big Bang—a cosmic Jekyll and Hyde that looks like any other galaxy when viewed in ...

But now a new study published in Nature suggests a solution to the Little Red Dots mystery. Scientists think young ...

Galaxy Y1 shines thanks to dust grains heated by newly-formed stars (circled in this image from the James Webb telescope). Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory ...