Near-infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed five early universe galaxies merging within a large halo.

Tiny red objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are offering scientists new insights into the origins of ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

Astronomers uncovered seven dust-shrouded quasars from Cosmic Dawn, doubling the known tally of early supermassive black holes.

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after ...

Ph.D. candidate Anthony Englert GS observed a light bridge between two galaxies in local galaxy cluster Abell 3667.

A team of astronomers looking at galaxies in the universe’s distant past have discovered nine young, compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. Imagine receiving an ...

From elegant spirals and massive ellipticals to oddball irregulars and barred beauties, here’s how stars reveal a galaxy’s ...

In 1925, Edwin Hubble's observation of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda galaxy revolutionized astronomy, proving the ...

Astronomers peering back deep in time into the distant universe think they may have discovered a population of previous hidden galaxies that could shake up astrophysics. The research, based on data ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, ...