New James Webb Space Telescope observations indicate that early galaxies were more chaotic than previous results suggested.

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an ...

Researchers discovered a hidden 185,000 light-year "bridge" of gas between two distant galaxies, which are also trailed by a ...

Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, and found that ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...

Astronomers have found new evidence that mysterious dark matter may be responsible for the unusual glow of high-energy gamma ...

Astronomers have discovered that the distant galaxy A1689-zD1 has an unusually low dust-to-gas ratio, using the James Webb ...

The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), in the constellation Virgo, possesses near its center a supermassive black hole ...

An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...