The James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of these violent bundles of gas and stars. The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they ...

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Chicago/H. McCall Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. White diamonds mark 20 of the 83 small starburst galaxies spotted by JWST. Galaxies like these ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

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 ...

Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic makeover that transformed the early universe into the one we know today. White ...

Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of 'hidden' galaxies that could hold the key to unlocking some of the universe's secrets. If their existence is confirmed it ...

For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters remained largely incomplete. Our telescopes simply haven't been sensitive enough ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. White diamond symbols mark the locations of 20 of the 83 newfound young, low-mass galaxies ...

A whole universe of hidden galaxies lies just beyond what the eye can see. Thanks to a new generation of space telescopes, astronomers are now revealing these distant, dim worlds—some no bigger than a ...