Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual "ingredients," raising ...

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old ...

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

NPR's Short Wave talks about elephants' sniffing abilities, the remarkable migration of painted lady butterflies and a ...

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

New Webb and ALMA observations show that a massive black hole shut down star formation in Pablo’s Galaxy by ejecting its cold ...

Galaxy clusters are formed by a dense packing of many galaxies, making them the most massive structures in the universe.

Using the Subaru Telescope’s wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...

ISF 2026 is expected to draw participation from over 25,000 students, 1,000 professors and 5,000 professionals from across ...

Astronomers have discovered that a young galaxy was gradually starved by its central supermassive black hole, in what was ...