A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a ...

In its first year of full operations, the Euclid space telescope has quietly built one of the most ambitious maps of the ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

More than 100 observed galaxies are being disrupted and stripped of their outer layers, transforming them into fossil-dense, ultra-compact dwarf galaxies. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Recent announcements from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) team have shown galaxies in the very early universe are far more advanced, mature, and evolved than they ought to be. But that might be ...

A sample of galaxies dating to the first 2 to 3 billion years of the universe contain much heavier elements, and appear to be far hotter, than scientists expected. When you purchase through links on ...

Q How many galaxies are in the universe? — Gus Powvens, Madison, Wis. A Jim Lattis, director of the UW Space Place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Galaxies are clouds of stars that range in ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Since beginning operations last year, the James Webb Space Telescope, opens new tab has provided an astonishing glimpse of the early history of our universe, spotting a ...

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Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology want your help studying galaxies far, far away. It may seem like something out of Star Wars, but the goal is to gather scientific information to learn ...