Like archaeologists who piece together our history from fossils, a team of astronomers has described the past life of distant spiral galaxy NGC 1365 by analyzing its specific light signals. The light ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression shows the giant spiral galaxy NGC 1365 as it collides and merges with a smaller companion galaxy, stirring ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pushed the edge of the observable universe deeper into the past, revealing a galaxy whose light began its journey when the cosmos was only a few hundred million ...

In a galaxy far, far away, there lie clues to the cosmic dawn—the first few hundreds of millions of years in our 13.8-billion-year-old universe’s early history. On Wednesday astronomers on announced ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

The oxygen in a galaxy does not sit still. It spreads, thins out, piles up, and leaves behind a record of where stars formed, where gas moved, and when smaller galaxies crashed in. In the nearby ...