Four galaxies crowd the center of a collapsing structure 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang. Each one is churning out stars ...

Astronomers from the University of Tokyo and other institutions have utilized the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study ...

James Webb Space Telescope detects a candidate jellyfish galaxy 5 billion years after the Big Bang, providing insights into ram-pressure stripping and early galaxy evolution.

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The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

Discover seven unusual galaxies defying scientific predictions, from impossibly bright early universe objects to astrophysics ...

One of the things that the James Webb Space Telescope was designed to do was look at some of the earliest objects in the Universe. And it has already succeeded spectacularly, imaging galaxies as they ...

The Milky Way, home to Earth, is one of dozens of galaxies in the Local Group. Many of these objects are so faint that even the Hubble Space Telescope could only glimpse their inner workings. The ...

New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early Universe.