Researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Université Paris-Saclay have reopened one of cosmology’s oldest ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, they don’t expect to see fully ...

Astronomers may have uncovered the origins of the mysterious “little red dots,” some of the strangest galaxies seen in the early universe. These tiny but brilliant objects, discovered by the James ...

The discovery of thousands more galaxies with stars ringing their main disks could help astronomers study galactic evolution ...

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Astronomers say they have identified a new type of astronomical object that challenges traditional ideas about how galaxies form.

The James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered Population III stars, the universe's first generation of stars. They may tell us more about how galaxies form. When you purchase through links on our ...

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about how these cities of galaxies form.

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic evolution.

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier than astronomers believed such well-structured galaxies could form. With ...

Dark matter, the invisible glue that outweighs normal matter in the cosmos, is starting to look less like a passive backdrop and more like a player with its own rules. As astronomers push their ...