We know that interstellar objects occasionally visit our solar system. So far, we have only discovered two interstellar ...

"Our reconstruction shows that clumps of actively forming stars are surrounded by diffuse light from other unresolved stars," ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because ...

Sometimes in astronomy, a simple question has a difficult answer. One such question is this: what is the mass of our galaxy?

A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing—not even light—can escape from it. At the center of ...

In this one-minute clip posted to X from the International Space Station (ISS) social media account, SpaceX's Crew Dragon ...

Ancient galaxies have irregular shapes due to intense star formation from cold gas flows and galaxy collisions, as revealed ...

Firefly Sparkle is still in the process of assembling and has a mass equivalent to about 10 million solar masses.

The Firefly Sparkle galaxy is so named because it resembles a "sparkle" or swarm of lightning bugs on a warm summer night.

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Firefly Sparkle is a lightweight among the universe's galaxy contenders seen by Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope, but the discovery is no less important than more massive galaxies because of what it ...

Named 'Firefly Sparkle,' this galaxy is distinguished by its low mass, offering a rare glimpse into early galaxy formation ...