By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our ...

JWST discovers Zhúlóng, the earliest Milky Way-like galaxy, 800 million years after the Big Bang explosion occurred.

Astronomers have spotted the farthest spiral galaxy ever seen. Its light has travelled 12.8 billion years to reach Earth.

The most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date has been discovered. This ultra-massive system existed just one ...

An intensive survey deep into the universe by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has yielded the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack: the farthest galaxy yet seen in an image that has been ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

In the farthest reaches of our solar system ... Now, a new study suggests that this distant cloud may resemble a miniature ...

It's a distant galaxy called HD1, some 13.5 billion light years away from Earth, with researchers offering two ideas of what, exactly, the galaxy is. A global team of astronomers has found the ...

This is an artist’s impression of JADES-GS-z14-0, which as of today is the most distant confirmed galaxy. Galaxies in the early Universe tend to be clumpy and irregular. Supernova explosions in this ...

The object itself is much smaller than our galaxy but it is a powerhouse of star formation, and now two different teams of scientists have detected oxygen in it, the farthest detection of this ...

This line illustrates the approximate relative distance between our sun and the center of the galaxy (represented by the tick mark at the end of the line). It also establishes the 2-dimensional ...