"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

Mysterious dark matter makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe, and of the remaining 15 percent, scientists couldn’t account for half—until now.

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered Zhúlóng, a fully-formed spiral galaxy that existed just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, challenging our understanding of how quickly galaxies can mature ...

JADES-GS-z13-1-LA is a young galaxy shining just 330 million years after the Big Bang, signaling it's part of a process ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?

Astronomers may have uncovered a hidden population of galaxies that could rewrite what we know about the universe's evolution ...

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.

An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...