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 have discovered two early-universe galaxies where the central black holes appear to have grown far faster than ...

Early galaxies were star-forming machines, furiously gobbling up gas and spitting out stars. A new model helps explain why ...

Scientists found one of the earliest known slow-spinning galaxies, challenging long-standing ideas about how massive galaxies ...

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 ...

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

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

In a recent paper in Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at the Kanazawa University, Japan, ...

The cosmic event horizon acts as an invisible boundary that restricts the observable universe, ultimately isolating galaxies ...

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