Near-infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed five early universe galaxies merging within a large halo.

Scientists have discovered a giant black hole that they believe may have been formed in the first few microseconds after the ...

Our understanding of cosmology hinges on how well we know our own local universe, which remains poorly mapped and poorly ...

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after ...

Our solar system resides in the spiral Milky Way (MW) Galaxy. American astronomer Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) is credited with discovering the shape and scope of it, so named because it looks like a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations of the early universe have unveiled a perplexing mystery: the rotation directions of most galaxies appear to be the same. Researchers from Kansas ...

You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success,” 19th-century Baptist preacher Russell Conwell is said to have ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in 2 years of operations, but how can it see a galaxy 33.8 billion light-years away in a universe that is only 13.8 billion years old?

We know a lot about our Milky Way Galaxy’s location in the universe thanks to efforts to map the distances to nearby galaxies. Our galaxy is a member of the Local Group — a small collection of ...

The universe is awash in islands of matter — some 100 billion galaxies make up the basic building blocks of the cosmos.

‘The Milky Way’ wants you to get to know your home in the universe Astrophysicist Moiya McTier’s new book introduces our galaxy from an unusual perspective ...

Astronomy Hubble Space Telescope Hubble telescope traces a spiral galaxy to chart our universe's expansion News By Elizabeth Howell published December 6, 2021 ...