A stellar nursery in the Small Magellanic Cloud — a tiny galaxy that orbits our Milky Way — is surprisingly dusty. All rocky planets start as dust grains floating in space. That means the amount of ...

While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified GLASS-z13, a galaxy potentially dating back 13.5 billion years, making it a candidate for the oldest and most distant galaxy observed, surpassing ...

JWST spotted carbon in a small galaxy that we see as it existed just 350 million years after the Big Bang. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

On July 12 NASA revealed stunning first images taken by its James Webb Space Telescope. For scientists, the release of these images will lead to a better understanding of the history and formation of ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its present age, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how ...

Brian Lacki has released a set of three prepublication studies attempting to rationalize and measure the odds of a ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) unveiled magnificent new images from its Euclid space telescope, representing the agency's first scientific discoveries from early observations. The project, which ...