Abendano, the team has built a sample of molecular clouds in this galaxy by analyzing the data from the Combined Array for ...

Mizzou scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found unusual "platypus galaxies" that could change what we know ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is finding unexpectedly many "dead" galaxies in the early universe where no stars are forming.

Astronomers have spotted one of the oldest "dead" galaxies yet identified, and found that a growing supermassive black hole ...

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

Astronomers are gathering in Phoenix this week for the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS 247), where ...

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object, a cloud of dark matter and gas ...

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...

Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, but there are ways for stars to escape into intergalactic space.