Peru's Ministry of Culture has confirmed a groundbreaking discovery that rewrites the history of ancient astronomy in the Americas. Archaeologists working at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

LOS ANGELES — Scientists have found the most distant space object yet observed, a galaxy born just 500 million years after the Big Bang. The record-breaking discovery, reported Wednesday in the ...

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

A jewel-like galaxy radiates royally in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The NGC 4689 galaxy resides a mere 54 million light-years from our planet and holds a deep mythological lore from ...

A monster jet of radio waves was discovered by astronomers. It’s double the width of our Milky Way galaxy and the jet is shooting out of a quasar. The quasar formed when the universe was about 1.2 ...

When do galaxies stop forming new stars? This is what a study published today in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers led by the Kavli Institute for Cosmology used NASA’s James Webb Space ...

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The super-heated material churning around an ancient black hole shined brighter than astronomers previously thought was possible. There’s a theoretical limit to how bright gas and dust can get when ...