Astronomers have observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral galaxy in the early Universe and found that it has important similarities and differences with modern galaxies. This improves our ...

A global team led by UMass Amherst identified dusty, star-forming galaxies nearly 13 billion years old, bridging gaps between early ultrabright and quiescent galaxies in the universe.

Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million cosmic scenes, including supermassive black holes, merging galaxies, and ...

A simulation of the cosmic sheet as seen from the side, with voids above and below. (Wempe et al., Nat. Astron., 2026) The Milky Way isn't just drifting through a giant void in space untethered, but ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity ...

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of dusty, star-forming galaxies at the far edges of the universe that formed ...

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The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...

Left: The galaxy J0107a observed in infrared light with the James Webb Space Telescope. The two galaxies seen in the lower part of the image are unrelated foreground objects. (Credit: NASA) Right: The ...