"Our reconstruction shows that clumps of actively forming stars are surrounded by diffuse light from other unresolved stars," ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers witnessed a massive black hole jet slam into an unknown object in space.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because ...

The Sombrero galaxy looks entirely different in a new image by the James Webb Space Telescope. Instead of a Mexican hat, it ...

A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, known as NGC 5643, is ...

Our galaxy probably contains 100 to 400 billion stars, and is about 100,000 light-years across. That sounds huge, and it is, at least until we start comparing it to other galaxies. Our neighboring ...

Why is your discovery of the Firefly Sparkle galaxy important? Telescopes like JWST are essentially time machines. Since ...

For the first time, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has detected and "weighed" a galaxy that not only existed ...

Infrared light reveals the galaxy to be a docile place, rather than the shining, roiling 'Sombrero' seen in visible light.

Firefly Sparkle is among the earliest galaxies humans have observed, which formed merely some 600 million years after the Big ...

The Hubble Space Telescope may be living our dream of wandering through the cosmos. It's the year 2000. We're floating in ...