Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

It's been named Cloud-9, and it's a mysterious object about 14.3 million light-years away, near the spiral galaxy M94, which ...

Astronomers using Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a new type of cosmic object that is believed to be a “failed ...

Far beyond the bright pinwheels and glowing nebulae that dominate space photography, astronomers have finally confirmed ...

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...

Astronomers have finally confirmed the existence of RELHICs—a long-theorized class of dark, starless clouds from the early ...

Measuring the energy of hot gas within a remote group of galaxies reinforces the importance of giant black holes in forming ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, a team of researchers has identified a new astronomical object named Cloud-9, which may significantly enhance our understanding of galaxy formation and the early ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...

A team of researchers at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) has created a new simulation of early galaxy formation. The simulation allows us to get a fascinating, albeit brief ...

A group of astronomers has discovered a "barred" spiral galaxy from 11.5 billion years ago. That's only 2 billion years after ...