The Circinus galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to ...

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

The discovery of thousands more galaxies with stars ringing their main disks could help astronomers study galactic evolution ...

Astronomers report how a "death by a thousand blows" caused a galaxy in the early universe to stop forming stars, making it ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to identify two rare types of dust in the dwarf galaxy and chemically ...

According to a new study, some of the earliest galaxies observed with the James Webb Space Telescope are in fact much less massive than they first appeared. Black holes in some of these galaxies make ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

Euclid’s first deep-field survey has captured 26 million galaxies, some over 10 billion light-years away, offering a preview of its mission to chart a third of the sky in stunning detail. AI and ...

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...

JWST recently caught three of the universe’s earliest galaxies in the act of pulling themselves together from a giant, dark cloud of hydrogen gas. The three dim spots of red light in a recent batch of ...