The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Images from ALMA telescope provide insight to the earlier years of our universe.

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...

The resulting image shows a portion of the Leo P dwarf galaxy, with a concentration of ... years after the Big Bang when it's believed the universe's first stars and galaxies formed.

A cosmic filament, 3 million light-years long, has been directly imaged for the first time — offering a new glimpse into the ...

From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...

The Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency has spotted an Einstein ring in the galaxy NGC 6505, just 590 million ...

This colourful image of NGC 1850, a smaller neighbouring galaxy of the Milky Way, was captured using data from three telescopes.