A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows thousands of glittering galaxies that it spied by peering through ...

The most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the ...

Galaxies may not be as simple as "young and blue" or "old and red." A new idea from astrophysicist Charles Steinhardt proposes a third type: red star-forming galaxies that break the mold. These galaxi ...

Two years ago, a star on its deathbed was charged with a heinous act — eating a planet — in a system 12,000 light-years away ...

VISIONS of leaving Earth and launching humanity further into the cosmos are enough to get anyone starry-eyed. But the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant quiescent galaxy ever seen – one that had ...

In the early Universe, galaxies proliferated by absorbing gas and forming stars. Eventually, this growth stops in a process ...

Discover the intriguing space explosion predicted in a rare double white dwarf system just 160 light-years away from Earth.

It normally takes a long time to form such red and dead ... cosmic times. Their inferred abundance has been challenging to ...