The most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the ...

Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of "hidden" galaxies that could hold the key to ...

The potential finds could be contributing to some of the faintest light we can see in the universe, say researchers.

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short ...

Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of 'hidden' galaxies that could hold the key to unlocking some of the universe's secrets. If their existence is confirmed it ...

Galaxies may not be as simple as "young and blue" or "old and red." A new idea from astrophysicist Charles Steinhardt proposes a third type: red star-forming galaxies that break the mold. These galaxi ...

Researchers mapped a far-infrared landscape brimming with nearly 2,000 galaxies. There may be "hidden galaxies" lurking just ...

Researchers have discovered a group of galaxies that have so far been inaccessible to Earth-based telescopes. These "hidden" ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

Researchers have discovered a group of galaxies that have, until now, been inaccessible to Earth-based telescopes. These ...

In the vast universe, galaxies rotate in ways that don’t make sense if only visible matter is considered. For almost a ...