Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so ...

A newly discovered galaxy with glowing star-filled "tentacles" is rewriting parts of cosmic history.

Long strands of glowing gas stretch behind a distant galaxy, dotted with pockets of newborn stars. The shape looks almost biological, like tentacles drifting through water. Yet this structure formed ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...

How does galaxy location drive galaxy structure and star formation? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hopes to address as a team of ...

A galaxy cluster over 6 billion light years away. Peering back in time to when the universe was younger than the Earth is now, the images span the period from around twelve billion years ago until one ...