If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explores the evolution of spiral galaxy UGC 10043 through images taken 23 years apart, in 2000 ...

Some galaxies hit a point in their lives when their star formation is snuffed out, and they become “quenched.” Quenched galaxies in the distant past appear to be much smaller than the quenched ...

Imagine peering into a nursery and seeing, among the cooing babies, a few that look like grown men. That’s the startling situation that astronomers have stumbled upon as they’ve looked deep into space ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant cluster of galaxies ever observed and at the earliest stage of development yet witnessed. The proto-cluster - Cosmos-Aztec3 - is a burgeoning galactic ...

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The force is with us. A massive, unseen force is pushing our galaxy, the Milky Way, across the universe, according to new research. The Milky Way is in a constant state of motion and moving across the ...

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Astronomers say they have discovered a hot, star-popping galaxy that is far, far away — farther than any previously detected, from a time when the universe was a mere toddler of about 400 million ...

In a discovery that offers a rare glimpse back to when the universe was just 750 million years old, a team of astrophysicists said Sunday they have detected a tiny galaxy that is the farthest known ...