Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I’ve been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...
It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...
The professor of astronomy and planetary sciences at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), who won this year’s Shaw ...
New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.
“The discovery meant that these galaxies [had to be] older than the age of the universe, which is physically impossible,” ...
Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered three massive galaxies from the early universe, revealing ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...
The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...
A group of international astronomers have discovered three mysterious, ultra-massive galaxies in the early universe. The ...
The James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic "red monster" galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They're ...
Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...
The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...