Recent research has uncovered a barred spiral galaxy formed 11.5 billion years ago, making it one of the earliest known galaxies that contains a stellar bar. The research was supported by Yingjie ...

Dark matter doesn’t emit, absorb, or reflect light. It’s invisible but supposedly makes up 85% of the universe’s mass. Because it’s so abundant, astronomers believe it should explain many unsolved ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pushed the edge of the observable universe deeper into the past, revealing a galaxy whose light began its journey when the cosmos was only a few hundred million ...

Astrophysicists from the University of Waterloo have observed a new jellyfish galaxy, the most distant one of its kind ever captured. Jellyfish galaxies are named for the long, tentacle-like streams ...

In the most inhospitable environments of the cosmos, the ingredients necessary for the emergence of life manage to form. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, a team has scrutinized the core ...

An international team of scientists led by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the ...

Astrophysicists from the University of Waterloo have observed a new jellyfish galaxy, the most distant one of its kind ever captured.Jellyfish ...

New observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveal a galaxy with sweeping gaseous ‘tentacles’ in a galaxy cluster at redshift of 1.156, meaning we’re seeing it as it was ...