"Why do they have the same rotation? They must have a connection with each other — that would be a very strong question that ...

The Milky Way is just a speck in a universe filled with an untold number of galaxies. But if we had to take an educated guess, how many galaxies are in the universe? That sounds like a simple ...

The formation of galaxies in the universe should follow a fairly simple path. It starts with small galaxies, which then grow bigger and bigger until they become the giant galaxies we see in the modern ...

The most plausible explanation for this coherent motion is that the galaxies formed ... This is because more pieces of evidence, like observations of galaxy formation and structures in the early ...

Determining the expansion rate of the universe, the "Hubble constant," shapes our understanding of the cosmos, its age, and ...

In the early Universe, long before they should have had time to grow, astronomers have found what they're calling 'red ...

Astronomers have spotted massive red galaxies dating back to the first billion years of the universe’s life. Some are almost ...

An international team of astronomers used the Webb Telescope to search for so-called "emission-line galaxies" from the first ...

We are the Universe trying to understand itself. How, and why, did we come to be? Why does the Universe take the shape it ...

The collaboration's latest finding points to a possible explanation from an older theory: that across billions of years of ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by supermassive black holes that seem to have fully formed in the earliest epochs of the ...