Astronomers have discovered a system of five merging galaxies just 800 million years after the Big Bang, in a find that is ...

As we stand on the brink of technological evolution, our capacity to delve deeper into the cosmic abyss is escalating. The ...

Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in ...

with cosmic collisions triggering wild bursts of star formation that depleted most of the galaxies' available gas about half a billion years before JWST's observations, the researchers wrote. Sign up ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery of dark matter.

Sporting the world’s largest digital camera, the new telescope is poised to help solve some of the universe’s biggest mysteries.