The team made the discovery when studying the distant Dragon Arc galaxy, using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The Dragon Arc is located behind a massive cluster of galaxies ...

In the last couple of decades, it’s become increasingly clear that massive galaxies like our own Milky Way host supermassive ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are notoriously difficult to study. They are flashes of radio light that can outshine a galaxy but ...

More than 40 new stars have been discovered - thanks to a telescopic magnification trick. It is believed to be the first time ...

The technology that would allow humans to leave the Milky Way is barely imaginable, but it seems the carbon and oxygen that ...

The carbon atoms in your body have likely traveled much farther than you have, possibly hundreds of thousands of light-years ...

Physicists studying a distant galaxy using a telescopic technique called "gravitational lensing" found 44 previously unknown ...

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

The fleeting cosmic firework likely originated within the turbulent magnetosphere surrounding a distant neutron star. Fast ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

Researchers in South Korea are developing a constellation of satellites that could reveal what goes on in the vicinity of ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million ...