There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

A group of astronomers analyzing data from the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) say some of the oldest galaxies in our ...

Using the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), Chinese astronomers have identified nearly 300 ...

“The expectation was that every big galaxy we see in the nearby universe would have started from these itty-bitty pieces.” ...

JWST data challenges theory that dark matter aided early galaxy formation, as bright signals found instead of expected dim ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky ...

revealing that massive galaxies in the early Universe may have grown far more rapidly and efficiently than previously thought ...