Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

Astronomers discovered Cloud-9, a galaxy that failed to form about 14 million light-years from Earth. NASA said in a January ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

Astronomers believe this barred spiral galaxy could be the oldest example of its kind ever observed. Research led by Daniel ...

"You think that these things should not exist together, but there it is right in front of you, and it’s undeniable," ...

Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...

MeerKAT radio telescope discovers 49 hidden galaxies in less than three hours, revealing how much of the nearby universe ...

A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host.

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, ...

New paper led by UC Santa Cruz undergraduate suggests that long-dormant galaxies deemed to be dead may actually be stunted by ...