In the very young universe, just a fraction of its current age, astronomers have stumbled on a set of objects that refuse to ...

The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several hundred million years after the Big Bang. Now, it's sensed light from a ...

The vastness of space allows for a huge variety of structures to pop up all over the place. Even things we think of as one-and-done objects—like galaxies—come in quite a few shapes and sizes. Follow ...

PHOENIX —Thousands of newly spotted galaxies are dressed for a Victorian ball: in hoop skirts. The cache of “polar structure galaxies” — with large starry or dusty structures oriented perpendicular to ...

Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...