If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

A novel "X-arithmetic" technique reveals how black holes shape the universe's largest structures.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Thousands of galaxies in various shapes and sizes are captured in this new image from the James ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

A spectacular new view of two dwarf galaxies caught in the middle of a cosmic collision reveals a glowing gas bridge, streams ...

For over two decades, cosmologists have believed that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, driven by a ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

Learn more about the supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 and how its powerful blast is similar to our sun’s coronal ...