The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered unusual compact sources of light in the distant Universe, nicknamed little red ...

Unexpected, Bright Hydrogen Emission Caught Astronomers by Surprise In the early universe, space was filled with a dense fog of neutral hydrogen gas. Although the first stars and galaxies gave off ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an ...

Unlike any other similarly distant galaxy, it shows a very clear, telltale signature that suggests the galaxy contains a ...

The universe is thought to have experienced a rapid and exponential expansion in a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement ...

Learn about a new observation of a galaxy emitting ultraviolet light that broke through the early universe's dense fog.

A tiny red speck, spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, has set a date on an important era in the Universe's history. The speck, known as JADES-GS-z13-1-LA, is one of the earliest galaxies ever ...

Originally named Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics, Gaia was conceived with the aim of mapping the cosmos, ...

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement ...