A new study suggests that "little red dots" spied by the James Webb telescope could be the universe's short-lived first ...

The researchers said that the "hydroxyl gigamaser" was generated by the merger of two galaxies some 8 billion light-years away.

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected. It is located in a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion ...

For more than a decade, astronomers quietly watched the most precise clocks in the cosmos, waiting for a barely perceptible shiver in spacetime. Now, after 15 years of patient measurement, they say ...

Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe works, a telescope captures something that doesn’t fit any existing theory.

Scientists discovered a distant jellyfish galaxy with star-forming "tails" stretching back 8.5 billion years.

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 ...