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

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

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

In a cosmic first, astronomers have captured the birth of rocky planets around a baby sun-like star 1,370 light-years away.

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'.

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

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

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

This stunning image dubbed 'Cosmic Owl' captures a remarkable moment in deep space, billions of light years away.

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 ...