Astronomers have spotted the most distant and brightest "space laser" ever seen, blasting out from a distant galaxy collision ...

An international team led by a researcher at the Chiba Institute of Technology has discovered an extremely rare phenomenon: a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a new red galaxy at a redshift of approximately ...

Oxygen was just found in a distant galaxy — and it may provide answers on how ours developed - The galaxy is 13.4 billion ...

A new study has found that a hidden bias in galaxy models can skew gravitational-wave measurements of how fast the universe is expanding. That finding complicates one of astronomy’s most promising ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand a mysterious invisible substance that helps hold the universe together. The ordinary matter all around us — stars, planets ...

Modern physics suggests distance may emerge from motion, gravity and quantum entanglement, not exist as a basic fact. (CREDIT: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel/STScI, T. Hallas, and A.

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

Astronomers detect a laser-like signal coming from colliding galaxies 8 billion light-years away. A cosmic mystery.

Indian astronomers have discovered a cluster of quasars that spout jets of matter that extend out for 7.2 million light-years — many times bigger than our own galaxy. The mind-bending study was ...

Astronomers have found the faintest galaxy yet seen in the deep, distant reaches of space, an object whose light has taken 13 billion years to reach us. The tiny galaxy, which existed about 800 ...

A team of astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has pioneered a new field called extragalactic archaeology. According to the new study published in the ...