Like archaeologists who piece together our history from fossils, a team of astronomers has described the past life of distant spiral galaxy NGC 1365 by analyzing its specific light signals. The light ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pushed the edge of the observable universe deeper into the past, revealing a galaxy whose light began its journey when the cosmos was only a few hundred million ...

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The oxygen in a galaxy does not sit still. It spreads, thins out, piles up, and leaves behind a record of where stars formed, where gas moved, and when smaller galaxies crashed in. In the nearby ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...