If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

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

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

In a young galaxy more than 13 billion light-years away, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up a chemical fingerprint ...

"We believe that the universe on very large scales is made of a network-like distribution of galaxies, gas and dark matter," ...

JWST spotted carbon in a small galaxy that we see as it existed just 350 million years after the Big Bang. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

On April 24, 1990, all 24,000 pounds of the Hubble Space Telescope were tucked away inside the Discovery space shuttle when it launched into space. Thirty-five years later, NASA says Hubble has proven ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its present age, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how ...

Our status as milk-producing mammals would not be lost on intelligent aliens studying the history of our astronomy. The ancient Greeks, they would learn, described a milkiness in the night sky. And ...