AI helped researchers probe the Hubble Space Telescope's archive to find strange celestial objects, including some indescribable by science.

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 ...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...

Galaxies without stars might seem like a contradiction. Aren’t galaxies supposed to be islands of stars, gas, planets, and more? Well, maybe this newly discovered object should be called a failed ...

Astronomers utilizing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a new class of galaxies that defy traditional cosmic categorization. This unexpected discovery, highlighted in a recent ...

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

While nearly all massive galaxies possess central black holes, the presence of such black holes in dwarf galaxies remains an open question, with previous estimates identifying them in only 0.5% of ...

Astronomers have identified the largest known single spinning structure within the cosmic web, a filament approximately 117,000 light-years across and 5.5 million light-years long, situated 424 ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...