A massive, rotating disk galaxy designated DLA0817g and nicknamed the "Wolfe Disk," formed just 1.5 billion years after the ...

Long strands of glowing gas stretch behind a distant galaxy, dotted with pockets of newborn stars. The shape looks almost biological, like tentacles drifting through water. Yet this structure formed ...

In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies ...

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of ...

Astronomers have puzzled for decades over how massive elliptical galaxies appeared so early in cosmic history. The standard ...

Thought the Super Bowl was big? Samsung’s highly-anticipated global product launch Galaxy Unpacked has tech fans in a frenzy, with the South Korean juggernaut finally unveiling its latest flagship ...

Of the thousands of single-star systems in our galaxy, around 10% are known to have planets. Scientists thus expected about ...

It's a glimpse into the universe's secret architecture, revealing how even the most subtle cosmic structures orchestrate the grand ballet of creation, guiding the destiny of galaxies across the eons.

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

Space observatories tend to work quietly, collecting data long before images reach the public. In March 2025, NASA launched the SPHEREx space telescop.

New data from major dark-energy observatories suggest the universe may not expand forever after all. A Cornell physicist calculates that the cosmos is heading toward a dramatic reversal: after ...

A physicist proposes that the universe is not empty space, but is a viscous fluid, fueling the expansion and contraction we see.