"It was actually a total surprise to find the satellites in that configuration and we still don’t fully understand why they ...

By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...

Water has been present in the universe since 100-200 million years after the Big Bang, scientists have discovered. The study, ...

In 2019, they took the first image of a supermassive black hole. Today, these exotic objects are a fundamental part of our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve. But what of smaller ...

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb ...

from what happened right after the Big Bang to how the first galaxies formed and where the building blocks of life come from. Built by Ball Aerospace with a payload provided by Caltech and NASA ...

Cosmic filaments stretch across millions of light-years and form what's known as the "cosmic web." Galaxies are strung together to form large filaments, and at their intersections are galaxy ...