Image of three Milky Way-like galaxies and their systems of satellite galaxies. The SAGA survey identified two, six, and nine small satellite galaxies in these three systems respectively.

The discovery of a 'weird' and unprecedented galaxy in the early Universe could 'help us understand how the cosmic story began', astronomers say. GS-NDG-9422 (9422) was found approximately one billion ...

Looking deep into the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: ...

Strange Universe Like a parasite sucking the life force out of its host, an international group of scientists have determined ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope captures one of the universe's most dramatic events: the colliding of two galaxies.

Two billion years old is far too young for a galaxy to die, barely a child by cosmological standards. Small galaxies may end ...

Galaxies usually become chaotic when they run out of star-making fuel, but this one is going out surprisingly quietly.

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that supermassive black holes can starve their host ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered that supermassive black holes can exhaust the resources ...

The Milky Way’s outer reaches are coming into view thanks to the JWST. Astronomers pointed the powerful space telescope to a ...

Images of the sky, stars and galaxies have the ability to strike wonder and awe. The Astronomy Photographer of the Year ...