SPHEREx's first images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant quiescent galaxy ever seen – one that had already stopped forming stars just 700 million years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers have found early evidence of the Universe’s transformation from a foggy, opaque state to a transparent one, ...

The groundbreaking findings throw established science into question, write Bernard J.T. Jones, Licia Verde, Vicent J.

A whole universe of hidden galaxies lies just beyond what the eye can see. Thanks to a new generation of space telescopes, ...

An international team led by UNIGE shows that red and dead galaxies can be found only 700 million years after the Big Bang, ...

SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking about 600 exposures a day. The observatory is capable of detecting infrared ...

For now, researchers think the light might be coming from the first stars to exist, or outflows from a supermassive black ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, which includes researchers from the University of Toronto, recently ...

The universe remains a puzzle, full of shifting clues and unexpected revelations. In a new twist, scientists studying galaxy ...