NASA’s Hubble and Webb telescopes observe explosive star formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud's NGC 460 and NGC 456 clusters.

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

A recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reveals the discovery of the most distant and most pristine fossil galaxy ever found, KiDS J0842+0059, located about 3 ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

The new galaxy, because of how far away it is, looks to observers exactly as it did when it was first created 3 billion years ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Scientists are still trying to understand how galaxies formed and evolved from primordial gas clouds into the organized ...

Dr. Caitlin Casey, an observational astronomer, has recently joined the physics department at UC Santa Barbara. She co-leads the C.O.S.M.O.S. collaboration — a project distinguished by its deep ...

Scientists think they found evidence of weird ancient stars called "dark stars" that are powered by dark matter instead of ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...