NASA's most powerful telescope has once again left scientists scratching their heads after challenging their understanding of ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

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

This 2024 image from NASA’s Webb Telescope reveals the star cluster NGC 602 in the Small Magellanic Cloud, with candidates for the first brown dwarfs outside the Milky Way. The ...

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 ...

Earth rotates, the Sun rotates, the Milky Way rotates – and a new model suggests the entire Universe could be rotating.

Some galaxies that should have ceased forming stars long ago are defying expectations. Anew theory proposes the existence of ...

JADES-GS-z13-1-LA is a young galaxy shining just 330 million years after the Big Bang, signaling it's part of a process called reionization.

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

Ostriker is responsible for groundbreaking discoveries that forever changed the way astronomers think about what the universe is made of, including the existence of dark matter.

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