A dead galaxy shouldn't produce bursts of radio light. Yet this 11 billion-year-old one did — throwing scientists for a loop.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is ...

It is not surprising that there are regions that are more densely populated by galaxies, and regions that are less populated.

Its goal is to examine nothing less than the essential ingredients of life in our galaxy and the origin of the universe ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb ...

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the ...

The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's ...