NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because ...

"Our reconstruction shows that clumps of actively forming stars are surrounded by diffuse light from other unresolved stars," ...

For the first time, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has detected and "weighed" a galaxy that not only existed ...

Sometimes in astronomy, a simple question has a difficult answer. One such question is this: what is the mass of our galaxy?

A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing—not even light—can escape from it. At the center of ...

The Firefly Sparkle galaxy is so named because it resembles a "sparkle" or swarm of lightning bugs on a warm summer night.

Firefly Sparkle is a lightweight among the universe's galaxy contenders seen by Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope, but the discovery is no less important than more massive galaxies because of what it ...

Firefly Sparkle is still in the process of assembling and has a mass equivalent to about 10 million solar masses.

Named 'Firefly Sparkle,' this galaxy is distinguished by its low mass, offering a rare glimpse into early galaxy formation ...

Stunning new photographs by a team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images give us an unprecedented picture of ...

Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and ‘weighed’ a galaxy that existed about 600 million years after the big bang ...