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

Astronomers have uncovered one of the earliest and most complex galaxy mergers ever observed — a system involving at least five physically interacting galaxies, spotted just 800 million years after ...

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

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 the first billion years after the Big Bang, moving one step closer to ...

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 ...

Astronomers at the University of Missouri, using the James Webb Space Telescope, have uncovered 300 unusually bright cosmic objects that may be some of the earliest galaxies ever formed. By applying ...

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

Image courtesy of Carnegie Science. In time, Rubin’s meticulous studies of more than 75 spiral galaxies convinced even her biggest skeptics. Flat rotation curves appeared again and again.

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