The James Webb Space Telescope has identified an extraordinary system of five galaxies merging when the universe was only ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features an uncommon galaxy with a striking appearance. NGC 7722 is a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang.

"JADES-ID1 is giving us new evidence that the universe was in a huge hurry to grow up." ...

Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, ...

Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), employing its infrared capabilities, offered new insights into the Sombrero Galaxy (M104), revealing previously hidden stars by softening the appearance of its ...

Galaxy dynamics are confronted with one of the deepest problems of modern physics: the dark matter problem. The motions of stars and gas observed exceed what can be explained by the mass visible in ...

Galaxy merger is a crucial process in galactic evolution that has happened since the first galaxies came into being. Now JWST ...