The distribution of normal matter precisely determines gravitational acceleration in all common types of galaxies, a team led by Case Western Reserve University researchers reports. The team has ...

The James Webb Space Telescope zooms in on galaxies of various sizes, colors and shapes.

Astronomers from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, and elsewhere report the discovery of a new isolated early-type ...

The James Webb Space Telescope zooms in on galaxies of various sizes, colors and shapes.

The night sky of Aspen is a wonderland for stargazers, dark and transparent enough for the naked eye to discern ...

Considering the two types of galaxies seen in the local universe already exist in the universe 8 billion years ago, the initial findings showed that concentrated elliptical galaxies formed from ...

Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the first galaxies in long-wavelength infrared light for the first time. Alongside ...

In the direction of Pisces, approximately 560 million light-years from Earth, scientists have discovered a particularly ...

Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the Universe, according ...

Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the Universe, according ...

This so-called quasi-stellar object (or quasar) was just the first type to be found of what are now called active galaxies — galaxies with high-energy physics occurring at their cores.