The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral ...

When the JWST came to life and began observations, one of its first jobs was to gaze back in time at the early universe. The ...

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies - both possessing roughly as many stars as our Milky Way - careening toward ...

Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense ...

Astronomers have captured the spectacle of two galaxies on a collision course, akin to knights in a joust, seen as they were 11.4 billion years ago. This is marked by a quasar from one galaxy ...

"This shocking result means that we now need to revisit the very foundations of everything we know about cosmology," said the reseachers.

Researchers suggest the universe's background radiation has been overestimated, potentially challenging the standard model of ...