Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.

The James Webb Telescope has discovered a gigantic galaxy in the early universe, probably from 12 billion years ago.

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way's ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery—a massive spiral disk galaxy, much larger than expected, in the early universe.

These stars whiz through space at the mind-bending speed of several million miles per hour. That's far faster than our ...

The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, ...

17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first ... 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ...

CU Boulder researchers found massive, dust-filled galaxies called UFOs using JWST, challenging previous galaxy formation ...

University of Arizona astronomers have learned more about a surprisingly mature galaxy that existed when the universe was ...