Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the ...

NSF NOIRLab rings in the New Year with a glittering galaxyscape captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with ...

It proved the Andromeda Nebula is immensely distant from Earth, demonstrating that the Milky Way is not the whole universe, ...

Gravitational lenses have been used previously to resolve individual stars in the distant Universe. Using the microlensing of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found evidence of large, bright galaxies in the early universe, challenging traditional dark matter theories and suggesting a rapid galactic formation as predicted ...

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.

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

but there are galaxies billions of times more distant still. The period in which humanity had been recording events represented less than a millionth of the time the universe had existed.

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...