The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides ...

Researchers suggest the universe's background radiation has been overestimated, potentially challenging the standard model of ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image that incorporates six different ...

Along with a number of neighbouring galaxies — including our closest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy — it forms what ...

Galaxies have long been classified into two types: blue ones, young and active, and red ones, old and inactive. Charles Steinhardt, a professor at the University of Missouri, proposes a third category ...

Ralf Klessen investigates the physical processes that governed the formation of the first generation of stars in the early ...

Through a citizen science project called Galaxy Zoo, volunteers can help astronomers analyze over 500,000 James Webb Space ...

Now, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured one of those ancient tales — of galaxies forming families in the universe’s youth. Near the constellation Leo, JWST turned its gaze ...

"Galaxies at the edge of our universe are being seen for the first time, just as they are starting to form. Just sign up and answer simple questions about the shape of the galaxy that you are seeing.

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...

This background radiation also provides important answers to the question of how the first galaxies were able to form. Researchers at the Universities of Bonn, Prague and Nanjing calculate that ...