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

"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those ...

An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an important transition period that brought the early universe out of its ...

In simplest terms, the rate at which the universe expands on paper doesn’t match actual astronomical observations. That speed ...

Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of "hidden" galaxies that could hold the key to ...

"We discovered a galaxy which formed 15 billion times the mass of the sun in stars and then stopped forming stars before the universe was only 700 million years old." ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

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 ...

Astronomers have long struggled with a troubling puzzle: a significant portion of normal matter in the universe appeared to ...

The universe remains a big mystery for astronomers ... can explain the formation of even the smallest known galaxies," said study co-author Giuseppina Battaglia, a physicist at the Instituto ...

JADES-GS-z14-0 is the most distant known galaxy ... “In general, galaxies this early in the universe are very different from the famous galaxies we know from the beautiful images of Hubble ...