The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected by the James Webb Space Telescope for Cycle 1. The team, led by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has publicly released its full ...

The largest spinning structure ever seen was a giant rotating filament of the cosmic web, a rotation with clues about how ...

Studying the very distant Universe is hard. That’s because — not to be too on the nose about it — it’s far away. That makes it hard for many reasons. Objects that far away are small and faint, so we ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...

Whether the Universe will 'end' at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's cosmic ...

Our Solar System orbits the galactic center at an estimated 792,000 kilometers per hour, taking 225 million Earth years to ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

A frequent sign of the maturity of a spiral galaxy is the formation of a ribbon of stars and gas that slices across the nucleus, like the slash across a “no smoking” sign. In a landmark study of more ...

A spacecraft that’s exploring the dark universe has released its first full-colour images of the cosmos. Named Euclid after the ancient Greek “father of geometry,” the satellite was developed by the ...

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