Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over how some massive galaxies stop forming stars and remain dormant for billions of years—even ...

"You think that these things should not exist together, but there it is right in front of you, and it’s undeniable," ...

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified a population of “platypus galaxies” that defy ...

An amateur astronomer from Italy has discovered five new dwarf galaxies around a distant spiral galaxy — a spiral that's one of the largest galaxies in the sky over Earth. His name is Giuseppe ...

Give them a constellation prize. A group of international scientists discovered three ultra-massive “Red Monster” galaxies capable of forming their own stars faster than the average nebula. The ...

Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...

An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky Way—already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. The ...

Rochester Institute of Technology scientists have once again used data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as part of the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey to change the way ...

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about ...