James Webb Space Telescope detects extreme nitrogen in galaxy GS 3073, providing evidence of supermassive Population III stars and their role in forming early supermassive black holes.

If not in visible stars and galaxies, the most likely hiding place for the matter is in the dark space between galaxies.

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient progenitors of galaxies like ours were small galaxies similar to modern-day ...

Chaos strikes galaxies that age prematurely, according to a survey of 3,000 galaxies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The more ...

NASA released exciting information on Thursday regarding the discovery of "monster stars" and "spiral galaxies." Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers were able to identify nine "monster stars ...

A simple ranking exercise quickly revealed how poorly most people understood the universe they lived in. Basic concepts like ...