The first galaxies in the Universe were born enshrouded in a “foggy” gas, and could not be seen clearly until they had cleared up this fog. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers ...

New observations have revealed early signs of UV light illuminating the cosmos more than 13 billion years ago.

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

"We report the discovery of one of the most distant galaxies known to date," astrophysicist Joris Witstok told Newsweek.

"At the centre of our galaxy sit huge clouds of positively charged hydrogen, a mystery to scientists for decades because normally the gas is neutral. So, what is supplying enough energy to knock ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Astronomers have discovered a massive cloud of gas that's on a collision course with our home galaxy, the Milky Way. What will happen when it slams into our galaxy ...