A baby galaxy is throwing one heck of a tantrum, and it's shaking up our understanding of the earliest galaxies.

Whether the Universe will 'end' at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's cosmic ...

James Webb Space Telescope confirms dark energy is accelerating universal expansion, strengthening evidence for the Big Rip ...

Our Solar System orbits the galactic center at an estimated 792,000 kilometers per hour, taking 225 million Earth years to ...

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

A team of astronomers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has released new data from an ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found the most distant (and thus the earliest) massive "dead" galaxy to date. The discovery suggests that galaxies were "dying" much ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...

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The image of Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy discovered to date. It has remarkably well-defined spiral arms, a central old bulge, and a large star-forming disk, resembling the structure of the ...

An accidental discovery by a team of astronomers has upended existing theories about how galaxies formed in the early universe. The discovery, led by the "Cosmic Web" research group and international ...