In A Nutshell Astronomers have identified 18 ancient, dust-shrouded galaxies from the universe’s first billion years that ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated 70 dusty galaxies at the very edge of the universe that ...

Euclid’s first deep-field survey has captured 26 million galaxies, some over 10 billion light-years away, offering a preview of its mission to chart a third of the sky in stunning detail. AI and ...

But new research has found the strongest candidate yet. The first author is Dayi (David) Li, a post-doctoral fellow in ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what seems to be a galaxy that is the most heavily dominated by ...

Head-scratching observations of distant galaxies are challenging cosmologists’ dominant ideas about the universe, potentially leading to the implication that the strange substance called dark matter ...

Some of the strangest ideas about space — from cosmic sounds to rogue planets — are grounded in real science. Astronomers have detected sound waves rippling through dense galaxy clusters, though at ...

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While nearly all massive galaxies possess central black holes, the presence of such black holes in dwarf galaxies remains an open question, with previous estimates identifying them in only 0.5% of ...

New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early Universe.

The cosmos may not be broken after all. Soon after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) started its science mission in 2022, astronomers discovered a half-dozen galaxies near the edge of the universe ...

Clouds of gas in a distant galaxy are being pushed faster and faster -- at more than 10,000 miles per second -- out among neighboring stars by blasts of radiation from the supermassive black hole at ...