In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

The stars in our galaxy exhibit a curious chemical division, but is this the norm in the Universe? A recent study shows that ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

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

Why do some galaxies spin like giant tops, while others appear stationary? This question has puzzled astronomers for decades, ...

A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, ...

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

Scientists discover the largest-known rotating cosmic filament, a 50M light-year structure of galaxies, gas and dark matter spinning in space.

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered distant, overly massive supermassive black holes in the early universe. The black holes seem way too massive compared to the ...