According to new research, the earliest seeds of structures may have been laid down by gravitational waves sloshing around in ...

That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...

Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...

Edwin Hubble's discovery of the expanding universe transformed cosmology, revealing countless galaxies and laying the ...

A large international team of scientists has observed a phenomenon that astronomers didn't ever expect to see happen in real ...

Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early galaxies formed.

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...

The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...

New ground- and space-based infrared observations are giving astronomers a better handle on the true populations of red ...