Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

KiDS J0842+0059 lies around 3 billion light-years away from Earth. It holds a stellar mass almost 100 billion times that of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a ...

Astronomers have unearthed a 'perfectly preserved' galaxy, offering insights into the universe's evolution and the birth of ...

The team used the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in ...

Since massive galaxies can more efficiently convert gas into stars, they settle sooner than their low-mass counterparts, resulting in the earlier formation of thin disks. The team notes that thick- ...

The chaotic interactions between galaxies spark the birth of new stars and likely planets. Using its sharp resolution and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

Sweeping views of nebulae and dancing galaxies prove the telescope’s enormous field of view and ultra-high-res capabilities.

Predicted by Einstein and dismissed as undetectable, gravitational waves were finally heard in 2016. Now, with observatories ...

In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct ...