Scientists using a NASA space telescope have made an unexpected discovery that could change everything we know about how galaxies formed in the early days of the cosmos. A newly discovered galaxy has ...

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Scientists have discovered a gargantuan ring-shaped structure – about 1.3 billion light-years in diameter – that they say is so big it challenges our understanding of the universe. Dubbed the Big Ring ...

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A newly discovered galaxy cluster could rewrite our understanding of the cosmos, as scientists spot 'something the universe wasn’t supposed to have’. Researchers found that the cluster was burning ...

Six massive ancient galaxies, which astronomers are calling "universe breakers" appear to have been discovered, which may upend existing theories of cosmology. The galaxies, detected by the £8.3bn ...

The largest known galaxy has been discovered by astronomers — measuring in at a whopping 153 times the size of our own Milky Way. Named Alcyoneus, the galaxy is around 3 billion light-years away from ...

NASA’s oldest and most travelled shuttle, Discovery, began its new life as a museum relic with one final takeoff after three decades of space service. Discovery departed Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre ...

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The galaxies date back to within 600 million years of the Big Bang. Using data released from Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists found objects as mature as the Milky Way when the universe ...