Scientists have announced the surprising discovery of oxygen and other heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

As the extraordinary pace of astronomical discovery carries on, we increasingly see that the stuff of life is spread ...

But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

They have now hit upon a jackpot as they detected oxygen in a new world. However, this world is not in our Solar System, in ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...

A massive spiral galaxy with a giant black hole is shooting huge energy jets, something scientists thought only elliptical ...

Deep in the galaxy’s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, clouds ...

Scientists studying one of the earliest known galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that the universe's ...

Known as JADES-GS-z14-0, the galaxy was detected last year by Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope. Its light took more than ...