When you look up at the night sky, the stars seem infinite and impossibly distant. But what you’re seeing represents only the tiniest fraction of what exists in our universe. Beyond our solar system ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a surprising discovery about a galaxy long, long ago and far, far away: It isn’t rotating.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a rare jellyfish galaxy 8.5 billion light-years from Earth, offering a pristine look at how cosmic environments violently shut down ...
As a science communicator, I rarely go a full week without a press release hitting my inbox informing me of some new record-breaking object astronomers have found. Sometimes it’s the smallest planet ...
A developing galaxy cluster dating to about 1 billion years after the Big Bang is shown in this handout image released on January 28, 2026. The white box marks the field of view of the Chandra X-ray ...
Early galaxies were star-forming machines, furiously gobbling up gas and spitting out stars. A new model helps explain why ...
The team successfully built the largest, highest-resolution 3D map of the cosmos ever constructed. The completed map charts ...