The largest map of the universe ever created is now freely available for anyone to explore, so what are you waiting for?

For decades, scientists have been searching for the universe's elusive "missing matter," and now they say they finally found ...

In a discovery that has stunned astronomers worldwide, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified 10 galaxies that appear ...

How soon after the Big Bang could stars and galaxies start to form? It has been a difficult question to answer, as much of the light from the first stars has been shifted deep into the infrared ...

New research from scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is challenging what was previously understood about how galaxies formed at the start of the universe. The international team of ...

If we can see at most 3% of the universe, how can we estimate the total number of galaxies in it? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Astronomers are doing just that with the famed James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), using the behemoth flying observatory to rewind through our universe’s history, searching for early galaxies.

The different galaxies captured by Euclid's first observations of the Deep Field areas. ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by M. Walmsley, M. Huertas-Company, J.-C. Cuillandre The ...

The number of known galaxies circling the Milky Way is increasing as we develop new powerful telescopes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The study still indicates a small chance, around 2 per cent, of a direct collision between Milky Way and Andromeda in 4 to 5 ...

This background radiation also provides important answers to the question of how the first galaxies were able to form. Researchers at the Universities of Bonn, Prague and Nanjing calculate that ...