The universe is mostly a ghost story we don’t understand. Everything we know of, the stars, the planets, and everything on ...

Astronomers have spotted what may be one of the universe’s earliest barred spiral galaxies — a striking cosmic structure forming just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, COSMOS-74706, ...

A newly discovered galaxy with glowing star-filled "tentacles" is rewriting parts of cosmic history.

The studied galaxy existed about 930 million years ago after the Big Bang. Even though this might sound like a long time ago, in universe terms this is not ...

Gravitational lensing exposed a distant protocluster once seen as a faint smudge, revealing eleven dusty star-forming galaxies through combined ALMA and NSF VLA observations.

Scientists discovered a distant jellyfish galaxy with star-forming "tails" stretching back 8.5 billion years.

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

A rare jellyfish galaxy discovered by JWST is offering clues about how galaxies died in the early universe.

A newly discovered jellyfish galaxy, seen as it existed 8.5 billion years ago, is challenging assumptions about conditions in the early universe. Astrophysicists at the University of Waterloo have ide ...

Astronomers have uncovered a hidden population of dusty galaxies that formed just one billion years after the Big Bang, offering a new glimpse into the universe’s formative years. An international ...

Scientific advancements have made it possible to peek into a faraway galaxy that has big implications.