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

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short ...

Astronomers may have uncovered a hidden population of galaxies that could rewrite what we know about the universe's evolution ...

Hidden galaxies revealed in the far infrared could transform astronomy. Find out why this discovery may shatter long-standing ...

A new analysis of the sky has finally confirmed where the missing half of the Universe's visible matter has been hiding.

Since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began science operations, astronomers have observed galaxies that existed more ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just observed the oldest dead galaxy, that is, one in which the birth of new stars has ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

For decades, scientists have known that ordinary matter — everything made of atoms — accounts for just 15% of the universe’s ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

Dark matter is hypothesized to outweigh "ordinary matter" in the universe by a factor of five. That means all the stuff we ...