Astronomers have identified a group of ancient stars that may be the remnants of a dwarf galaxy named Loki that merged with ...

Seen just 800 million years after the big bang, an object called LAP1-B is a galactic building block that seems to hold some ...

The Whirlpool Galaxy sprawls across the cosmos in this striking new snapshot from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

A new image of the dusty spiral galaxy M77, taken by JWST. (ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy) A brightly gleaming galaxy ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted something that shouldn’t exist—at least not so early in the ...

This particular star system, dubbed Loki after the Norse god of trickery, was consumed by our own solar system billions of ...

At the centre of M77 is an active galactic nucleus, a compact region filled with hot gas that shines brighter than the rest ...

Astronomers released new images this week of the Milky Way that offer an unprecedented look at an enormous slice of the galaxy, complete with star clusters, clouds of cosmic dust and the supermassive ...

Scientists have detected a record-breaking radio signal from atomic hydrogen in a very distant galaxy. The galaxy that the signal originated from is believed to have come from a galaxy at redshift z=1 ...

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy -- shot ...