"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those ...

Astronomers have long struggled with a troubling puzzle: a significant portion of normal matter in the universe appeared to ...

JADES-GS-z13-1-LA is a young galaxy shining just 330 million years after the Big Bang, signaling it's part of a process ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

Astronomers may have uncovered a hidden population of galaxies that could rewrite what we know about the universe's evolution ...

Mysterious dark matter makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe, and of the remaining 15 percent, scientists couldn’t ...

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?

An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

Back when the Universe was new, following the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, galaxies took a bit of time to assemble ...

The University of Copenhagen team spotted a young galaxy called JADES-GS-z13-1-LA at a time when the universe was just 330 million years old. Study lead author Joris Witstok, a postdoctoral fellow ...

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered Zhúlóng, a fully-formed spiral galaxy that existed just 1 billion years after the ...