A galaxy in the early universe was rich with oxygen, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how early ...

But where it really shines is in the early Universe, at finding galaxies whose light has been on its was for more than 9 billion years, finding the majority of new galaxies there. But even the XDF is ...

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

Here’s how it works. One of the earliest galaxies in the universe was rich in oxygen, astronomers have found. (Image credit: Xuanyu Han/Getty Images) ...

According to the researchers, the universe, when it was only a few billion years old, contained 10 times as many galaxies in a given volume of space compared with today.

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 ...

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

Pictures are the key to new insights in the field of astrophysics. Such images include simulations of cosmic events, which ...

Counting the number of galaxies in the universe is tough because we can’t see all of them. At a certain point distant galaxies disappear from our field of view.

That cosmologists cannot agree on one of the most elementary facts about the universe is striking enough. But that ...