At the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting in Alaska last month, scientists discussed how Trump's budget cuts could ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

Disk galaxies, like our own Milky Way galaxy, commonly consist of both a thick and thin disk of stars—each with different ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

When looking up at the sky, you might think galaxies have always looked the way they do today. But a new study from Princeton ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...

Researchers analysing Webb Telescope data recently found a rare galactic duo. Together, the galaxies form an owl-like structure about 11 billion light-years away.

A new study has proposed the existence of a new type of cosmic object that could be hiding at the centre of our galaxy. This ...

Brown dwarfs are too small to sustain the nuclear fusion that powers most stars, so they cool and fade over time. But if they ...