Galaxy merger is a crucial process in galactic evolution that has happened since the first galaxies came into being. Now JWST ...

The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and much younger when we explore the universe at ...

New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early Universe.

Where are the smallest galaxies? A recent study suggests that there may not be as nearly as many of them in the early universe as there should be, which has big implications for the story of how our ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed yet another marvel from deep in outer space. A galaxy named MoM-z14 has taken the title of most distant galaxy the telescope has captured. It is a ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...