This galaxy existed when the cosmos was just 2 percent of its current age. That means its light had to travel for 13.53 ...

The improved capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have allowed an international team of astronomers to ...

In a surprising cosmic event, galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, has dramatically lit up after ...

Astronomers caught a brutal act of cosmic violence for the first time—one galaxy piercing another with deadly radiation.

The pair — dueling it out 11 billion light-years away in space — has given astronomers their first detailed look at a galaxy ...

The stars in a binary can vary widely in mass, size, and brightness, and their interactions often shape their evolution in ...

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, visible to the naked eye and set to merge ...

It can seem quite challenging for stargazers to comprehend the structure of the universe, but it’s really not that difficult. Just think of it as being ...

The gravitational pull from mass objects dictates the shape of the objects in our galaxy, but what if the most perfect sphere ...

Want a glimpse of the vast cosmos? Tennesseans should keep an eye on the night sky to see the Milky Way in May.

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

Deciphering the universe’s secrets is partly done through observation, but just as important are solid models of the forces ...