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

The most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the ...

New JWST research unveils the surprising influence of strong magnetic fields on star formation within the Milky Way's central ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

Using NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have taken the closest and clearest look yet at one of the most extreme places in our galaxy—a star-forming region called Sagittarius C.

VISIONS of leaving Earth and launching humanity further into the cosmos are enough to get anyone starry-eyed. But the ...

Scientists recently used Webb, Hubble's powerful infrared counterpart, to survey 10 stars in the same cluster. They discovered that, even at the stars' relatively old ages, they still maintained ...

Bicocca have identified a massive spiral galaxy, named "Big Wheel", which formed approximately two billion years after the ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

Explore how the Webb telescope reveals a massive black hole from the early universe living in a dormant state for most of its ...