The astronomers detected 44 stars in the "Dragon Arc" galaxy, located 6.5 billion light years away from our own Milky Way, using NASA's ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope.

Lost manuscripts written by the famous Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga were discovered in the Netherlands. The ancient finds are located at Leiden University Libraries.

Astronomers Baffled by Discovery of Ancient Galaxies. The perplexing aspect of these discoveries is the presence of characteristics typically seen in much older, ... “We have confirmed that these ...

Although once invisible to us in the vast reaches of the universe, 39 massive ancient galaxies have been discovered by astronomers using multiple space and ground-based observatories. This is the ...

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy, a star-scape beaming light just 300 million years after ...

Astronomers spotted a 13 billion year-old blazar given off by the most ancient supermassive black hole to be discovered yet.

Webb's first deep field images—infrared recordings of minuscule patches of sky, jam-packed with galaxies—sparked a scramble among astronomers to find the oldest galaxies in view. The Hubble Space ...

University of Tsukuba. (2019, October 16). Surveying solar storms by ancient Assyrian astronomers. ScienceDaily. Retrieved July 25, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 10 ...

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was peering through eons and eons in September 2021 when it spotted a dramatic explosion, a gamma-ray burst that had gone off in the early universe.

Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly simultaneously 4 million years ago. This observation marks the first ...

Astronomers Found the Ancient Light Source That Literally Turned On the Universe This is what ended the cosmic dark ages and ushered in a new era. By Darren Orf Published: Jul 11, 2024 10:00 AM EDT ...

Astronomers found the oldest-known case of a structure that plays a fundamental role in how galaxies evolve. ... This ancient galaxy has a magnetic field 1,000 times weaker than the one around Earth.