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

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered surprisingly large and bright early galaxies. This discovery challenges the ...

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 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 ...

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

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would ...

"There seems to be no limit for the degree of chemical complexity that interstellar space is able to fabricate." ...