"JADES-ID1 is giving us new evidence that the universe was in a huge hurry to grow up." ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand the mysterious dark matter holding the universe ...

"There is a growing chasm between theory and observation related to the early universe, which presents compelling questions ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope in a patch of the sky ...

GS-z14-0, the most distant galaxy ever observed. Seen just 300 million years after the Big Bang, its brightness and chemical ...

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here is the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223, or MACS J1149 for short, which is ...

Discover seven unusual galaxies defying scientific predictions, from impossibly bright early universe objects to astrophysics ...

As a science communicator, I don’t think a week goes by without a press release hitting my inbox informing me of astronomers finding some new record-breaking object. Sometimes it’s the smallest planet ...

Hubble has uncovered a goldmine of young dwarf galaxies that are undergoing intense bursts of star formation. Dwarf galaxies are the most common in the universe but until now astronomers had seen few ...