Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how small galaxies hold themselves together.

The Universe may not have begun with a Big Bang, but instead with a Big Bounce, according to a new theory about how the ...

Astronomers have exposed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to its first glimpses of the universe's most violent and gory events: stars being ripped apart and devoured by black holes. The powerful ...

The Hubble Space Telescope zooms in on NGC 45, a nearly invisible galaxy where bright pink nebulae mark regions of active star birth. This rare type of galaxy may hold answers to how galaxies form and ...

The discovery indicates how galaxies could have grown quickly when the universe was very young, solving a long-standing ...

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