By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Astronomers have investigated three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies that are located in a region of space far away from the ...

"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...

In a significant astronomical discovery, researchers found three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, offering new insights into the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb ...

Isolated, low-mass galaxies help researchers study the impact of reionization on their star formation histories (SFHs) ...

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies ...

The atoms that make up our world, including those in our own bodies, have a cosmic history. They were born in the hearts of ...