Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

"You think that these things should not exist together, but there it is right in front of you, and it’s undeniable," ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified a population of “platypus galaxies” that defy ...

Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The galaxy is 13.4 billion light-years away, meaning it formed in the early ...

A supermassive black hole in a distant disk galaxy is behaving badly, and the fallout is rewriting what I thought I knew ...

Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA's ...

Webb observations of the Sextans A galaxy reveal how stars in a metal-poor areas create cosmic dust, offering clues about the ...

Galaxy clusters are formed by a dense packing of many galaxies, making them the most massive structures in the universe.

Studying several tens of distant galaxies, an international team of astronomers found that galaxies had the same amount of dark matter relative to stars 6 billion years ago as they have now. If ...

Looking deep into space, and literally peering back in time, is like experiencing the universe in a house of mirrors where everything is distorted through a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.