Billions of years ago, a young spiral galaxy began to grow in a crowded part of the universe. It pulled in gas and small ...

The Whirlpool Galaxy sprawls across the cosmos in this striking new snapshot from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted something that shouldn’t exist—at least not so early in the ...

The map traces back to the point when the universe was 1 billion years old.

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have created the clearest map yet of the universe’s “cosmic web” — the enormous hidden structure that connects galaxies across space. By analyzing ...

Seen just 800 million years after the big bang, an object called LAP1-B is a galactic building block that seems to hold some ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a surprising discovery about a galaxy long, long ago and far, far ...

Newton’s Law of Gravity just survived its biggest cosmic test. Scientists studied nearly 686,000 galaxies spread across 7 ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 36 years of incredible discoveries, stunning imagery, and a lasting impact on astronomy ...

Astronomy Hubble revisits stunning Trifid Nebula after 30 years, and spots a growing jet of energy — Space photo of the week Cosmology The universe may end trillions of years sooner than we thought ...