How can a galaxy display perfectly defined spiral arms when the Universe had only a little over 10% of its current age? This ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a ...

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 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 ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

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(CNN) — Astronomers have spotted the oldest "dead" galaxy ever observed while studying the cosmos with the James Webb Space Telescope, and it's one of the deepest views into the distant universe made ...

The Realm of the Galaxies is one of the richest galactic regions visible with a small telescope. Credit: Creators.com illustration It can seem quite challenging for stargazers to comprehend the ...

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