NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the stunning image of Cartwheel Galaxy. This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

The new images, to be presented at an upcoming meeting of the American Physical Society, date back to when the universe was ...

Two different teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. The discovery, ...

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy, a star-scape beaming light just 300 million years after the Big ...

Though tiny, this newfound satellite galaxy around M31 offers big lessons — and questions — about how galaxies evolve.

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...

Although the telescope is just getting started on its mission, it has already delivered some impressive snapshots of the dark ...