The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered multiple evolutionary paths for the universe's most massive galaxies. Observations of ultramassive galaxies, each containing more than 100 billion ...

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Astronomers sweeping through the archive of NASA's James Webb Telescope found a group of galaxies with an unknown combination ...

Astronomers discovered Gomez’s Hamburger, a massive protoplanetary disk. Edge-on view shows dust and gas layers with clumps ...

This story was provided by Live Science, a sister site of Space.com. Astronomers have discovered over a dozen "dormant" galaxies that paused their star formation within the first billion years after ...

A massive young galaxy cluster has been found glowing with super-hot gas billions of years earlier than expected, defying current theories.

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This year's Royal Astronomical Society Fowler Award for early achievement in astronomy has been awarded to University of Warwick's Dr. Ingrid Pelisoli ...

NASA’s Webb Telescope has identified compact, mysterious galaxies nicknamed “astronomy’s platypus.” These strange objects ...