Galaxies may not be as simple as "young and blue" or "old and red." A new idea from astrophysicist Charles Steinhardt proposes a third type: red star-forming galaxies that break the mold. These galaxi ...

The most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the ...

Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope has captured the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530, located 40 million light-years ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

Scientists discover ancient galaxy created early transparent bubbles, challenging cosmic timeline of universe formation.

The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

Euclid is on a quest to unravel one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: why it's expanding faster and faster. With help ...

The subject of today's NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. NGC 5530 ...

For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early Universe. The James Webb space telescope now reveals that galaxies stopped forming ...

galaxies whose supermassive black hole cores are dazzlingly bright. “Euclid’s images are so sharp—about five times sharper than from the ground—that we have a totally new view of galaxies ...

Recent observations with the James Webb Space Telescope have already revealed surprisingly bright galaxies existed earlier than astronomers expected. But this new finding provides something more ...