The Sombrero Galaxy, also called Messier 104, sits around 31 million light-years away. It’s located in the direction of the ...

While the discovery made by JWST is undeniably a “revolutionary moment” for us, it is not an Archimedes-type “eureka” moment.

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...

One of the most spectacular galaxies in Earth's sky is the subject of a new image release to help celebrate 35 years of ...

A team of astronomers has detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible biosignature, or signs of ...

JWST discovers Zhúlóng, the earliest Milky Way-like galaxy, 800 million years after the Big Bang explosion occurred.

The halo is more extended that astronomers originally thought, and contains enough hydrogen gas to resolve the problem of the ...

The fast-moving gas cloud could help explain the so-called missing satellite problem, if the object is what scientists think ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

"No existing galaxy formation model within our standard cosmological paradigm can currently explain how this galaxy came to ...