Galaxy cluster Abell 1489, as imaged by the International Gemini Observatory, contains more than 200 of the ...

NASA has discovered the ten oldest galaxies. These galaxies offer a glimpse into the early universe. GN-z11 is the oldest, ...

Webb discovered an early cosmic boom of "red monster" galaxies, surprising even seasoned researchers who thought they knew ...

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.

Astronomers have, for the first time, directly observed star clusters merging at the cores of dwarf galaxies—a process long ...

For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed ... The hunt for such systems has thus been a major goal of astronomers for years.

We are located around just one star of many in an entire galaxy called the Milky Way. And if we look even further, we find billions of other galaxies out there in the universe, each holding billions ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years ... distances between Earth and their host galaxies. They occur when a white dwarf ...

SPHEREx's new images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the telescope is working according to its design.

Slowly, the first galaxies formed, and the hot stars and gas turned them into fast-paced stellar nurseries. These early stars were made almost entirely from hydrogen and helium, but inside their ...