A new comet approaching the sun has caught the attention of astronomers, primarily because of its lineage. It appears to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified an extraordinary system of five galaxies merging when the universe was only ...

Astronomers at The University of Manchester have played a leading role in the discovery of a new cosmic object that is much ...

Discover seven unusual galaxies defying scientific predictions, from impossibly bright early universe objects to astrophysics ...

Astronomers have long chased a hard question: how did black holes grow so huge so fast. Researchers at Maynooth University in ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big Bang—a cosmic Jekyll and Hyde that looks like any other galaxy when viewed in ...

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the researchers identified an ongoing merger event of at least ...

This early galaxy hosts as much as 30% of the oxygen of a fully developed, modern-day one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...