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

Webb reveals a bridge of stars linking two nearby dwarf galaxies, offering a look at how gravity reshapes galaxies and sparks ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

Measuring the energy of hot gas within a remote group of galaxies reinforces the importance of giant black holes in forming ...

It's been named Cloud-9, and it's a mysterious object about 14.3 million light-years away, near the spiral galaxy M94, which ...

Professor Woong-bae Zee of the College of Liberal Studies at Sejong University has revealed that a galaxy does not possess only a single evolutionary pathway; instead, depending on the nature of its ...

After combing through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of ...

The study of galaxies and their star formation processes remains a cornerstone of modern astrophysics. Galaxies are the fundamental building blocks of the Universe, each hosting a complex interplay of ...

Gas cloud collisions during galaxy mergers compress interstellar material, triggering new star formation, as observed in interacting systems studied by NASA and reported by Universe Today.

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...

Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA's ...