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 ...

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 ...

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

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...

Discover how astronomers are using innovative methods to unravel the origins of these fascinating cosmic phenomena.

In Palestine, mammoth balloons are assembled at a NASA complex nestled off a two-lane country road. These balloons can ...

When a magnetar within the Milky Way galaxy belched out a flare of colossally powerful radio waves in 2020, scientists ...