Astronomers have discovered two galaxies that are perfectly aligned, allowing their combined gravitational pull to act as a compound lens.

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 answers to the biggest questions in space science — what happens inside a black hole, how does a galaxy form or what is ...

Volcanic rock, dating back billions of years, has been detected in the first samples collected from the mysterious "dark side ...

Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a trio of ultra-massive galaxies, each nearly as ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, complex observatory that studies the universe in infrared light, which is ...

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

The findings suggest that the formation of stars in the early universe was much quicker than previously thought.

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered three massive galaxies from the early universe, revealing ...

This mid-infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope excels at showing where the cold dust, set off in white, glows ...

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