In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

If not in visible stars and galaxies, the most likely hiding place for the matter is in the dark space between galaxies.

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

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 ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

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

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

Astronomers are uncovering vast, wheel-shaped structures in the cosmos that challenge long-held ideas about how galaxies grow ...

A team of astronomers looking at galaxies in the universe’s distant past have discovered nine young, compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. Imagine receiving an ...

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