The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

This image features a very selective galaxy group that only includes two galaxies ... years away in the largest and brightest ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

Astronomers, using the James Webb Space Telescope, have discovered that early galaxies are far larger and brighter than ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky ...

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a ...

If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told ...

Such details were hidden by previous telescopes, but the JWST is designed to capture light 100 times fainter than that of the Hubble. “It can see very very far back in time essentially,” ...

The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) researchers used data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey.

The equipment was built with extremely sensitive receivers, allowing it to observe deep space, including far-off galaxies and ...