It was based on observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, Gemini North Telescope, and NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope ...

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 ...

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.

Long strands of glowing gas stretch behind a distant galaxy, dotted with pockets of newborn stars. The shape looks almost ...

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 — stars, planets ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity streaming long, tentacle-like trails of gas and newborn stars as it speeds ...

Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope discovered a hydroxyl megamaser in a galactic merger 8 billion light-years away, amplified by gravitational lensing and operating at radio wavelengths.

For decades, astronomers have struggled to visualize the universe during its early stages, when galaxies were forming and cosmic structures were taking shape. While the brightest galaxies are visible ...

Astrophysicists from the University of Waterloo have observed a new jellyfish galaxy, the most distant one of its kind ever captured. Jellyfish galaxies are named for the long, tentacle-like streams ...

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LOS ANGELES — A galaxy once considered the oldest has reclaimed its title, scientists reported Wednesday. Poring through Hubble Space Telescope photos, the team recalculated the galaxy's age and ...