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

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Meet Quipu, a new contender for the largest known structure in the universe. It’s essentially a giant cluster of galaxy clusters stretching approximately 1.3 billion light-years long—more than ...

The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the light from a galaxy behind it. Now, astronomers know where it gets this mass ...

According to the new DESI numbers, dark energy may be changing over time—either causing the universe’s expansion to ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be the largest-scale structure in the known universe — a group of galaxy clusters and clusters of galaxy clusters that spans roughly 1.3 billion light-years ...

Scientists have announced the surprising discovery of oxygen and other heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

“If you look at the distribution of the galaxy clusters in the sky within ... The astronomer’s discovery is believed to be the largest known superstructure in the cosmos, which could reshape ...

DF2 (NGC 1052-DF2: A mysterious ultra-diffuse galaxy with little to no dark matter. About 65 million light-years away in the Cetus constellation. ESO 383-76: A supergiant elliptical galaxy.

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. This record-breaking detection is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed in the early Universe.