How can a galaxy display perfectly defined spiral arms when the Universe had only a little over 10% of its current age? This ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will study thousands of cosmic voids, mapping galaxy distributions to investigate dark matter, dark energy and the universe’s large-scale structure through precise ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

James Webb Space Telescope confirms the first runaway supermassive black hole in the Cosmic Owl galaxy, observing its tail and bow shock, providing direct evidence of black hole ejection during galaxy ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Thousands of galaxies in various shapes and sizes are captured in this new image from the James ...

Astronomers analysing two decades of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have uncovered evidence that could overturn ...