"This shocking result means that we now need to revisit the very foundations of everything we know about cosmology," said the reseachers.

The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides ...

Elliptical galaxies are some of the oldest types of galaxies in the universe. They formed relatively quickly after the Big ...

Journey through time and explore the 10 oldest galaxies ever discovered. These ancient cosmic structures formed billions of ...

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.

SPHEREx begins mapping the sky in infrared, exploring the universe’s origins and life’s building blocks across the Milky Way.

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

NASA has discovered the ten oldest galaxies. These galaxies offer a glimpse into the early universe. GN-z11 is the oldest, formed 400 million years after the Big Bang. UDFy-38135539 marks the ...

It was previously already known that elliptical galaxies were the first galaxies that formed in the young universe. Vast volumes of gas accumulated to give rise to hundreds of billions of stars ...