The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

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 ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

Indian astronomers have identified a surprisingly mature, Milky Way-like galaxy from the universe’s early era. Named ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...

Uncover the secrets of Milky Way formation. New research uses simulations to explain the mysterious chemical divide in our ...

The filament is a part of the vast cosmic web composed primarily of dark matter and interspersed with lighter layers of ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

Astronomers have shared a jaw-dropping view of what galaxies looked like in the early Universe. A study has peered back to when the Universe was only about one billion years old, which researchers say ...

This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.