The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

Led by doctoral student Tatsuya Kotani and Professor Tomoharu Oka from Keio University, the research team measured the ...

Hubble’s updated view of NGC 3370, richer in light and detail than ever before, deepens our understanding of both the galaxy and the cosmos itself. This new Hubble Picture of the Week highlights a ...

The question of how fast the universe is expanding continues to confound scientists. Although it might seem like a fairly straightforward issue, the reality is that it has been perplexing the best ...

Using the wide-field survey capabilities of the Subaru Telescope, astronomers discovered active supermassive black holes, or quasars, in the distant universe and then studied them with the James Webb ...

For the first time, an international research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and its JADES program have identified AT2023 ADS-V, a core-collapse supernova occurring 1.7 billion years after the Big Bang, representing the most distant ...

A team of astronomers has discovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe, surrounding ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, finding that galaxies ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that a new feature in the universe—not a flaw in telescope measurements—may be behind the decadelong mystery of why the universe is ...

The expansiveness of the universe could make interstellar communication difficult, even for the most advanced civilizations.