The discovery of CDG-2 began when a team of astronomers investigated tight groupings of stars called globular clusters, which ...

In A Nutshell Astronomers have identified 18 ancient, dust-shrouded galaxies from the universe’s first billion years that ...

Astronomers utilizing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a new class of galaxies that defy traditional cosmic categorization. This unexpected discovery, highlighted in a recent ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

Space observatories tend to work quietly, collecting data long before images reach the public. In March 2025, NASA launched the SPHEREx space telescop.

The Hubble and Chandra space telescopes are hunting for rogue black holes wandering through dwarf galaxies, which could provide a fossil record of how supermassive black hole growth in the early ...

NEW YORK – A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand a mysterious invisible substance that helps hold the universe together. The ordinary matter all around us – ...

New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early Universe.

Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding ...

While nearly all massive galaxies possess central black holes, the presence of such black holes in dwarf galaxies remains an open question, with previous estimates identifying them in only 0.5% of ...