A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its ...

If even a few of these objects turn out to be what we think they are, our discovery could challenge current ideas about how galaxies formed in the early universe,” said Haojing Yan, a University of ...

Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have stumbled upon a puzzling population of galaxies that look far too ...

Astronomers have just caught the brightest fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded, and it has been given a nickname worthy of ...

During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.

New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.

Astronomers report that the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA) has discovered traces of oxygen in the very ...

Answers to some of cosmology's most pressing questions are obscured by simple dust. It concerns the Cosmic Noon, a period of ...

The study marks a major milestone in extragalactic astronomy, providing unprecedented insights into the formation and evolution of galaxies and the large-scale structure of the universe.

This is part of what makes galaxy clusters like PLCKG 287.0+32.9 (pronounced “Planck 287” for short) interesting to astronomers — “they carry memories of our early universe, therefore ...

The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, revealed itself to an international team of scientists when it was observed emitting startling pulses.