"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a million years." ...

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

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

How can a galaxy display perfectly defined spiral arms when the Universe had only a little over 10% of its current age? This ...

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

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

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

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

A spectacular new view of two dwarf galaxies caught in the middle of a cosmic collision reveals a glowing gas bridge, streams ...

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

New NASA-backed research using the Chandra X-ray Observatory suggests many small galaxies may lack supermassive black holes, ...