Thomas Mulligan shares the discovery that there are now known to be more galaxies in the universe than stars.

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?

Six years ago, a Dutch-led telescope on the Chinese Chang’e-4 demonstrated that it is possible to do radio astronomy from ...

In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of ...

Bechtol and his fellow scientists hope they can learn more about the universe than all of scientific progress has allowed in ...

One fascinating discovery was the detection of vast clouds of gas extending far beyond the main star-forming regions. These ...

Scientists think they found evidence of weird ancient stars called "dark stars" that are powered by dark matter instead of ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a camera so powerful it can see light from galaxies that formed more than 13 ...