Scientists have announced the surprising discovery of oxygen and other heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

Scientists studying one of the earliest known galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that the universe's ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

A massive spiral galaxy with a giant black hole is shooting huge energy jets, something scientists thought only elliptical ...

Known as JADES-GS-z14-0, the galaxy was detected last year by Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope. Its light took more than ...

Light from JADES-GS-z14-0 has taken 13.4 billion years to reach Earth, revealing a chemically mature galaxy when the universe ...

Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early universe. The surprise finding is ...

Learn about a new observation of a galaxy emitting ultraviolet light that broke through the early universe's dense fog.

The galaxy, which is known as JADES-GS-z14-0, is 13.4 billion light years away from Earth. It was just found last year using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. "I was really surprised by this ...