Massive star clusters may have blasted enough ultraviolet radiation into space to transform the early universe, new research ...

Quasars stripped early galaxies of their gas, the basic raw material for making stars.

Supermassive black holes lurk at the centers of massive galaxies, including our own Milky Way. Puzzlingly, supermassive black ...

A new image of the dusty spiral galaxy M77, taken by JWST. (ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy) A brightly gleaming galaxy ...

A distant galaxy has been caught in the act of shutting down. The galaxy, called CQ 4479, is still forming plenty of new stars. But it also has an actively feeding supermassive black hole at its ...

Scientists have been trying to understand more about our solar system and the way it formed for decades. For a long time, many believed that star formation and the formation of planets came at ...

The Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years across, but the new results suggest that the galaxy's star formation takes place within a region that extends to a radius of 40,000 light-years from the ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first delivered unprecedented images of some of the universe’s earliest galaxies, it left astronomers scratching their heads. These distant galaxies, which ...