Thomas Mulligan shares the discovery that there are now known to be more galaxies in the universe than stars.

In the vast expanse of the universe, there are cosmic giants so enormous that they stretch our understanding of scale and ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

We know the Universe must have been born with no stars or galaxies, and there must have been a "first star" and a "first galaxy" somewhere back in time. We can't see it yet; Hubble and Spitzer ...

Scientists have discovered the largest known galaxy ever. The new discovery is located around 3 billion light-years away. The galaxy, which is named Alcyoneus, is a giant radio galaxy.

One such galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0 (shown in the pullout), was determined to be at a redshift of 14.32 (+0.08/-0.20), making it the current record-holder for the most distant known galaxy.

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope identified 87 galaxies at high redshifts, meaning they formed in the early universe roughly 200 million to 400 million years after the Big Bang.

Oldest known galaxies spotted by James Webb Space Telescope NASA says galaxies date back to fewer than 400 million years after the Big Bang. By Julia Musto Fox News.

A faint 13.2 billion-year-old galaxy is the most distant ever observed. — -- After the Big Bang created the universe 13.8 billion years ago, scientists believe the first galaxies began to ...