In research published today, Australian scientists have taken a critical step towards understanding why different types of galaxies exist throughout the universe. The research, made possible by ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting the “cosmic dawn” — the era after the Big Bang when stars first ignited and galaxies began to bloom.

The first generation of stars transformed the universe. Inside their cores, simple hydrogen and helium fused into a rainbow of elements. When these stars died, they exploded and sent these new ...

Scientists observed SN 2004et and SN2017eaw, located on opposite sides of the spiral galaxy NGC 6946 also known as the Fireworks Galaxy, using the infrared imaging capabilities of the James Webb Space ...

Astronomers have identified a vast, twisting chain of galaxies that appears to be rotating as a single structure, a kind of cosmic tornado that stretches across tens of millions of light years. If ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered the oldest known black hole in the universe. Nestled within a glowing red galaxy, it dates back 13 billion years and provides a ...

The Fermi Paradox, first devised by physicist Enrico Fermi in the 1950s, asks why we haven’t detected alien civilization yet, despite the vast universe teeming with countless potentially habitable ...