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

"SPT2349-56 is a system so extraordinary that we may have caught one of the most massive clusters under formation at a very ...

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

Astrophysicists have long suspected that some dark matter halos might exist without forming stars, but no one knew the exact mass limit where this transition occurs. A computational astrophysicist has ...

Scientists discover ancient galaxy created early transparent bubbles, challenging cosmic timeline of universe formation.

Euclid is on a quest to unravel one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: why it's expanding faster and faster. With help ...

The groundbreaking findings throw established science into question, write Bernard J.T. Jones, Licia Verde, Vicent J.

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an ...

Learn why the neutrino detector aims to capture elusive particles, hoping to reveal why the universe is the way it is.

It will probe the origin and history of galaxies using a fairly new technique called intensity mapping. And it will explore the deep early history of the universe itself. SPHEREx researchers are ...

The space observatory can effectively peer back in time to the beginning of a mysterious era called Cosmic Dawn, or the first few hundred million years after the big bang when the first galaxies ...

NEW YORK — A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies. The images and other information released Wednesday by the ...