A mysterious cluster of 60 stars may be just another Milky Way star cluster, or it may be one of the smallest galaxies ever ...

Scientists detect oxygen in GHZ2, a galaxy located 13.4 billion light-years away, revealing intense star formation and low ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

Scientists have detected oxygen in a galaxy so distant that its light has traveled 13.4 billion years to reach Earth, ...

Scientists at Radboud University in the Netherlands have revealed that, according to a new calculation, the universe will end ...

The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious object in space that may be the smallest galaxy in the Universe, or the oldest star cluster in the Milky Way.

A new calculation of the end of the Universe suggests that the end of all things will come a lot sooner than our previous ...

The brilliant blue-white star lighting up the red nebula Sh2-46 hints at a dynamic and possibly fleeting encounter that could ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope made its public debut with a series of breathtaking images. Among them was an ethereal ...

In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope peers into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax, located ...