You know that feeling when you find something hiding right where you've been looking all along? Astronomers just had that moment on a cosmic scale. A galaxy so faint, so nearly invisible that no one ...

A lucky alignment of galaxies allowed researchers to identify the most powerful and distant "space laser" ever found.

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a former star that ...

Gravitational lensing is a phenomenon caused by massive objects bending the fabric space-time around them due to the impact ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured amazing imagery of merging galaxies II ZW 96. The merger is located 500 million light ...

Among a "field of galaxies;" the James Webb Space Telescope captured spiral galaxy LEDA 2046648, a billion light-years from ...

A team of astronomers has identified an extremely faint galaxy called CDG-2, located roughly 300 million light-years from Earth, where an estimated 99% of its total mass is made of invisible dark ...

Dark matter is so pervasive throughout galaxies that its presence explains the stability and motion of stars in systems such as the Milky Way. For example, current models indicate that our galaxy is ...

Astronomers have confirmed a bright galaxy called MoM-z14 that already existed just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

A newly discovered galaxy with glowing star-filled "tentacles" is rewriting parts of cosmic history.