Astronomers have uncovered a vast, razor-thin strand of galaxies that is not just drifting through space but spinning ...

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. White diamonds mark 20 of the 83 small starburst galaxies spotted by JWST. Galaxies like these ...

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

By studying tiny distortions in the shapes of distant galaxies, scientists mapped dark matter and dark energy across one of the largest sky surveys ever assembled. Their results back the standard ...

In just over three years since its launch, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has generated significant and unprecedented insights into the far reaches of space, and a new study by a Kansas ...

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar galaxies of the same epoch. Galactic disks are flat, rotating structures ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in the first billion years after the Big Bang, moving one step closer to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of these violent bundles of gas and stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

This early galaxy hosts as much as 30% of the oxygen of a fully developed, modern-day one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Published in 1915, and already widely accepted worldwide by ...