Up until recently, astronomy was reliant entirely on electromagnetic waves. While that changed with the confirmation of ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

"We discovered a galaxy which formed 15 billion times the mass of the sun in stars and then stopped forming stars before the ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...

For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early Universe. The James Webb space telescope now reveals that galaxies stopped forming ...

Astronomers discovered it using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The size and shape surprised experts worldwide.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant quiescent galaxy ever seen – one that had ...

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There’s more to the universe than meets the eye, he found. His studies led astronomy to the dark side, changing our view of ...

A waxing Moon brightens the sky as we catch our last looks at Uranus and view Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and Mars in the sky ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...