NASA’s Webb Telescope has identified compact, mysterious galaxies nicknamed “astronomy’s platypus.” These strange objects ...

After combing through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of ...

JWST has identified nine distant, compact galaxies that do not fit existing categories, raising new questions about how galaxies formed in the early Universe.

Astronomers have gotten a rare close-up look at a galaxy from the early universe and found it’s chock full of star forming activity in a way no one expected. Nicknamed “Cosmic Grapes,” this ancient ...

A formula that astronomers have long used to determine how much mass galaxies had at their birth may not be as dependable as scientists once thought, a new study suggests. The study, which took a ...

Astronomers have identified a rare class of galaxies in our cosmic backyard that were previously believed to exist only in the early universe. Known as little red dots (LRDs), these small, compact, ...

NGC 3718 is a distorted spiral galaxy about 65 million light-years away. NGC 3729, a nearby galaxy, likely distorted NGC 3718. Both NGC 3718 and NGC 3729 are barred spiral galaxies. Hickson Compact ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

The Universe is chock-full of oddities: stars that blink in and out without explanation, galaxies that eat one another, black holes gone rogue. It's no surprise that among the billions of galaxies out ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...