Light takes time to travel through space. Because of this, the light we see from distant objects in the night sky represents ...

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about ...

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

A small group of young researchers at the Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have, through ...

Most astronomers agree that young galaxy clusters should be relatively cool compared to older ones. But researchers recently ...

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Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old ...

Strange cosmic objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are presently puzzling astronomers. The odd ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified a population of “platypus galaxies” that defy ...

Observations of ultra-massive galaxies, each containing more than 100 billion stars, show that less than 2 billion years ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...