"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 ...

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

While nearly all massive galaxies possess central black holes, the presence of such black holes in dwarf galaxies remains an open question, with previous estimates identifying them in only 0.5% of ...

The discovery of thousands more galaxies with stars ringing their main disks could help astronomers study galactic evolution ...

In a recently published study, astronomers using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope have identified what could be the largest rotating object ever observed in space. The object itself is a vast ...

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas that births suns and planets, and it lies within a halo of dark matter, the ...

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic evolution. Astronomers have spotted an unexpectedly hot galaxy cluster in ...

Astronomers have identified a nearby galaxy whose central activity seems to be changing its long-term future. This galaxy, VV 340a, contains a superma.

Astronomers have identified the largest known single spinning structure within the cosmic web, a filament approximately 117,000 light-years across and 5.5 million light-years long, situated 424 ...

Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Haojing Yan and his team at Mizzou’s ...

After combing through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of ...