Astronomers have puzzled for decades over how massive elliptical galaxies appeared so early in cosmic history. The standard ...

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of ...

The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

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

The young galaxy cluster existed about 12.8 billion years ago and has an estimated mass 20 trillion times that of the sun ...

What: New analyses using early observations from the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission examine how galaxy mergers ...

Among a "field of galaxies;" the James Webb Space Telescope captured spiral galaxy LEDA 2046648, a billion light-years from ...

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...