“This galaxy was developing bars 2 billion years after the birth of the universe," Daniel Ivanov, a graduate researcher at ...

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy cluster burning five times hotter than theoretical models predicted, just 1.4 billion ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a barred spiral galaxy that formed when the universe was only two billion years old ...

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In general, objects get smaller and fainter with distance (although bizarre ...

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Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...

A rare ring of light surrounding a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth has been discovered by a space telescope that scientists hope will uncover more cosmic phenomena throughout the ...

Hubble has captured a galaxy losing vital gas as it races through a crowded cluster, revealing how harsh cosmic environments ...

(CNN) — Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form. The galaxy, ...