Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...

Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and ...

When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are the same. Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star ...

The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several hundred million years after the Big Bang. Now, it's sensed light from a ...

If we were back in time and near this galaxy (named GN-z11), we’d see “blue, stunning, really bright young stars” and all around us would be “very messy-looking objects” that are ...

This really is a galaxy far, far away! A team of astronomers has discovered an exceptionally bright galaxy called EGS-zs8-1 – the farthest object ever measured from Earth.

A galaxy that thrived some 3 billion to 2 billion years after the Big Bang, for example, would have inhabited a cosmos that was roughly 20 to 50 times denser than it is today, Keres said.

The distance to a super-bright galaxy has been exactly calculated, setting a 13-billion light-year record as the most distant galaxy ever seen (that we know of).

ESO officials created a video animation of the bright galaxy, called CR7, to illustrate their find. The newly discovered pocket of stars perches in an extremely bright, old galaxy called CR7.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists recently discovered a supernova about 21 million light years away in the Pinwheel Galaxy. Jeffrey Brown and Peter Nugent, who found the brightest ...