Astronomers, including those from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), discovered a new galaxy in the Leo ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

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Taking advantage of a cosmic 'double lens,' astronomers resolved more than 40 individual stars in a galaxy so far away its light dates back to when the universe was only half its present age.

The cutting-edge observatory is charged with seeing some of the earliest visible light, and the recent image achieves a new ...

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured images of 44 individual stars in a gorgeous portrait of a distant galaxy.

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of ...

Physicists have proposed a solution to a long-standing puzzle surrounding the GD-1 stellar stream, one of the most well-studied streams within the galactic halo of the Milky Way.

University of Washington scientists recently discovered that the giant 'conveyer belt' currents that push star-forged ...

A phenomenon called gravitational lensing turned a galaxy into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions," allowing for the discovery.