"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

Astronomers have discovered that a young galaxy was gradually starved by its central supermassive black hole, in what was ...

Astronomers realized that a strange cloud of gas was actually a relic of the ancient universe which might help solve some of ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Thousands of galaxies in various shapes and sizes are captured in this new image from the James ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to observe SN Eos, an ordinary supernova from the ...

Astronomers discovered Cloud-9, a galaxy that failed to form about 14 million light-years from Earth. NASA said in a January ...

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...