Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early ...

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly early for a spiral galaxy of a similar size to our own Milky Way ...

To learn more about the deepest reaches of our own galaxy and the mysteries of star formation, Japanese researchers have ...

Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.

CU Boulder researchers found massive, dust-filled galaxies called UFOs using JWST, challenging previous galaxy formation ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is transforming our view of the universe, revealing celestial objects in ...

A supercluster is usually composed of hundreds or even thousands of clusters of galaxies, and these clusters are ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Published as a cover story in Science on Friday, this cosmic atlas solves a decade-old challenge in astronomy by revealing ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...