Astronomers have finally identified where the Milky Way’s star-making activity fades, uncovering a long-sought boundary in ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a surprising discovery about a galaxy long, long ago and far, far ...

The Milky Way may not have a sharp edge, but scientists have now found where its star-forming activity largely comes to an ...

New simulations show that early ultraviolet light controlled whether ultra-faint dwarf galaxies could form stars.

A massive, dust-packed galaxy seen just 400 million years after the big bang is leaving astronomers scratching their heads.

Researchers are perplexed by a galaxy that seems too large and too dusty for its place in cosmic history, less than a ...

In the vast darkness of the early universe, a spiral of light named Zhúlóng offers a new glimpse into cosmic history. This galaxy, shaped like our Milky Way, formed just a billion years after the Big ...

Citizen science project uses Euclid telescope data to find gravitational lenses. Public helps identify light-bending galaxies ...

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies—tiny satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way—have long been seen as cosmic fossils. Now, a new ...

The image is created using observations in six different colour bands, allowing scientists to study different features of the ...