The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...
"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...
Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early ...
Though tiny, this newfound satellite galaxy around M31 offers big lessons — and questions — about how galaxies evolve.
Astronomers discover an 850,000 light-year-long cosmic filament in the early universe, providing insights into large-scale ...
Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...
At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...
A team of astronomers recently uncovered an exceptionally small and faint dwarf galaxy located approximately 3 million ...