Astrophotographer Ron Brecher has captured a stunning deep sky image of the spiral galaxy M106, located 23.5 million light ...

Astronomer Charles Steinhardt said most stars we see "might have formed under different conditions than we previously ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

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

Astronomers have discovered the most distant massive “dead” galaxy yet, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The ...

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured a colorful portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy from the Dark Sky Alqueva Observatory in ...

Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of ...

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

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered evidence that suggests the presence of a long-sought supermassive black hole at the heart of the nearby spiral galaxy ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the charming Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the iconic Mexican hat. The galaxy might look ...

A new discovery by NASA's flagship James Webb Space Telescope has pushed forward ... analyzed the distant galaxy JADES-GS-z13-1-LA. It is so far away that the light from it takes some 13.4 billion ...

As the JWST has probed further and further back in time, however, it has discovered earlier and earlier MQGs. Several of these red and dead galaxies were found as early as 1.2 billion years after ...