Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered 1,678 ancient galaxy groups, offering new insight into the ...

In the intriguing realm of star-forming galaxies, the key factor isn't the total amount of gas but rather its strategic distribution within the galaxy.

On June 5, the San Juan Stargazers will celebrate NASA’s 55th anniversary of the Apollo 13 “most successful failure” mission ...

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

A new, more detailed study of 1,000 distant galaxies explains why some gas-rich galaxies don’t produce as many stars as you’d ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important ...

Astronomers may have uncovered a mysterious population of ‘hidden’ galaxies that could change how we understand the universe.

In ΛCDM, Λ refers to the cosmological constant – a parameter introduced by Albert Einstein to counter the effect of gravity ...

NASA selected Rocket Lab to launch its Aspera astrophysics mission focused on studying galaxy formation and evolution using ...

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or 'hot Jupiters,' astronomers can spend months or years ...