This galaxy existed just 400 million years after the Big Bang and provides new insights into the first generation of galaxies. This is the first time that the distance of an object so far away has ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...

When Brant Robertson saw a new measurement of the distance to a familiar galaxy, he laughed out loud. For more than a decade, the galaxy had been a contender for the most distant ever observed. In ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with a boost from a natural “zoom lens”, has found the strongest evidence so far for a galaxy with a redshift significantly above 7. It is likely to be one of the ...

(Nanowerk News) How old is our universe, and what is its size? A team of researchers led by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa astronomers Brent Tully and Ehsan Kourkchi from the Institute for Astronomy ...

Vesto Slipher first observed that galaxies are moving away from us. Edwin Hubble later showed a relationship between galaxy distance and speed. Hubble's work relied heavily on Slipher's earlier data.

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

A research team led by Professor Woong-bae Zee at Sejong University has uncovered compelling evidence that the distinctive ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...

How old is our universe, and what is its size? A team of researchers led by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa astronomers Brent Tully and Ehsan Kourkchi from the Institute for Astronomy have assembled ...

Astronomers have assembled the largest-ever compilation of high-precision galaxy distances, called Cosmicflows-4. How old is our universe, and what is its size? A team of researchers led by University ...