Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and his team have discovered direct evidence of a black hole birth in a recently-collided galaxy duo named 'Infinity'.

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the “Infinity” galaxy — two recently-collided galaxies that, together, look like the symbol for ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...

Christmas came early for geologists at Yellowstone National Park this April when a regularly scheduled survey resulted in ...

How do supermassive black holes form through the gradual demise of stars, or in a dramatic, sudden collapse of cosmic gas? That has been the question that has haunted astronomers for decades, but a ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...