Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

Learn how a supermassive black hole has prevented a dead galaxy that was born soon after the Big Bang from making new stars.

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here is the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223, or MACS J1149 for short, which is ...

Astronomers realized that a strange cloud of gas was actually a relic of the ancient universe which might help solve some of ...

A small group of young researchers at the Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have, through ...

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about how these cities of galaxies form.

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

Astronomers find galaxy Y1, a young star-forming region, revealing extreme heat just 600 million years after the Big Bang.

Most astronomers agree that young galaxy clusters should be relatively cool compared to older ones. But researchers recently ...