How do you distinguish a galaxy from a mere cluster of stars? That's easy, right? A galaxy is a large collection of millions or billions of stars, while a star cluster only has a thousand or so. Well, ...

Astronomers have made a fascinating discovery in the Ursa Major constellation that could potentially challenge our understanding of galaxies and star clusters. The object in question, UMa3/U1, has ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found the most distant (and thus the earliest) massive "dead" galaxy to date. The discovery suggests that galaxies were "dying" much ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After detecting a whiff of oxygen, astronomers have determined that stars in a faraway galaxy formed 250 million years after the Big Bang -- a rather short time in cosmic terms ...

The most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the Big Bang. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

"We discovered a galaxy which formed 15 billion times the mass of the sun in stars and then stopped forming stars before the universe was only 700 million years old." When you purchase through links ...