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

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

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

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

A recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reveals the discovery of the most distant ...

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'.

The discovery demonstrates that entire galaxy clusters, among the largest structures in the universe, have been immersed in high-energy particles for most of their existence.

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.