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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, and found that ...

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

Researchers discovered a hidden 185,000 light-year "bridge" of gas between two distant galaxies, which are also trailed by a ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

Recent studies suggest a revolutionary perspective on dark matter, proposing that it behaves like a cosmic superfluid, ...

Indian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes and their powerful jets regulate galaxy growth by halting ...

Both galaxies can be spotted as small, diffuse patches of light northwest of Dubhe ... The gas clouds contain cavities and ...