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

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Astronomers have uncovered a hidden population of dusty galaxies that formed just one billion years after the Big Bang, offering a new glimpse into the universe’s formative years. An international ...

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A global team led by UMass Amherst identified dusty, star-forming galaxies nearly 13 billion years old, bridging gaps between early ultrabright and quiescent galaxies in the universe.

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies. By studying how these galaxies clustered ...

Rochester Institute of Technology’s Jeyhan Kartaltepe is assuming leadership of a team of more than 200 scientists worldwide collaborating to study how galaxies are influenced by both their ...

Telescopes from the CLASS project in Chile detect faint microwave signals from the early universe. (Deniz Valle and Jullianna Couto/Johns Hopkins University) (CN) — High in Chile’s Andes Mountains, ...

Cosmic web Created using data from the JWST, this map shows how dark matter acts as the hidden framework on which visible galaxies are built. The overlaid contours mark regions of equal dark-matter ...