This galaxy existed just 400 million years after the Big Bang and provides new insights into the first generation of galaxies. This is the first time that the distance of an object so far away has ...

Three years ago, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum surprised the scientific community with the discovery of a far-off galaxy that contained little or no dark matter. The discovery, ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

The team of astronomers used the Keck I telescope to measure the distance to an ancient galaxy described as the farthest galaxy in the universe. The galaxy in question is called GN-z11, and it's both ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

When Brant Robertson saw a new measurement of the distance to a familiar galaxy, he laughed out loud. For more than a decade, the galaxy had been a contender for the most distant ever observed. In ...

The most distant galaxy cluster yet has been discovered by combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical and infrared telescopes. The cluster is located about 10.2 billion light ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...

(Nanowerk News) How old is our universe, and what is its size? A team of researchers led by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa astronomers Brent Tully and Ehsan Kourkchi from the Institute for Astronomy ...

Astronomers have assembled the largest-ever compilation of high-precision galaxy distances, called Cosmicflows-4. How old is our universe, and what is its size? A team of researchers led by University ...

A full-sky map showing Cosmicflows-4's 56,000 galaxies with distance measurements. Each dot represents a galaxy, and the color of the dot indicates distance from us, with blue tones nearby and redder ...