There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

Astronomers have discovered that a young galaxy was gradually starved by its central supermassive black hole, in what was ...

Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual "ingredients," raising ...

Astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object: a gas-rich cloud about 14 million light-years away from our planet ...

The latest generation of astronomy algorithms is not just cataloguing stars and galaxies, it is learning the hidden rules ...

Astronomers find galaxy Y1, a young star-forming region, revealing extreme heat just 600 million years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers found a young galaxy cluster with unexpectedly hot gas, suggesting cosmic structures formed faster than once ...

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA's ...