A 29-year-old Manipuri astrophysicist has discovered an ancient city of galaxies dating back 12.6 billion years. This ...

A major international astronomy study led by an Indian scientist has discovered a massive structure of young galaxies in the early universe, naming it after a famous lake in Manipur.

A large protocluster of galaxies that existed 12.6 billion years ago, first discovered with the Subaru Telescope, has been ...

The James Webb telescope peered into an ancient spot of light, and found it to be the most metal-poor galaxy in the early universe.

Astronomical observations show that the most massive galaxies in the early universe formed approximately three to four billion years after the Big Bang and stopped producing stars very early in cosmic ...

Astronomers used subtle warps in galaxy shapes to map the invisible forces shaping the universe. By reanalyzing years of telescope images, they studied more than 100 million galaxies across an ...

Galaxies, like so many other astronomical objects, are surprisingly difficult to define. Here’s a hand-wavy attempt: a galaxy is a collection of stars, gas, dust and dark matter all held together by ...