New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.

Astronomers have spotted for the first time a trio of supermassive galaxies that were already fully formed in the first ...

Scientists are trying to figure out how minerals connected to exoplanetary water would look to the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

New research reveals how supermassive black holes halt star formation, shedding light on galaxy evolution in the early ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered three massive galaxies from the early universe, revealing ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the darling of high-energy astrophysics. Famed for providing unequaled x-ray views of ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...

Recent observations using Hubble have allowed astronomers to measure the size of the Large Magellanic Cloud's halo for the ...

The James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic "red monster" galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They're ...