Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

While most of us are content “reaching for the stars” and “shooting for the moon,” a team of scientists at W.M. Keck Observatory took their ambitions a million steps further by discovering what is now ...

Astronomers have peered out into the vast expanse and spotted what they think is the farthest (and oldest) galaxy ever observed. The galaxy GN-z11 might not have a flashy name, but it appears to be ...

Astronomers have peered out into the vast expanse and spotted what they think is the farthest (and oldest) galaxy ever observed. The galaxy GN-z11 might not have a flashy name, but it appears to be ...

Astronomers have more accurately measured the distance to the oldest and farthest galaxy ever detected. The light they’re seeing left the galaxy, known as GN-z11, around 13.4 billion years ago, when ...

Captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and combined with data from infrared and optical telescopes, this image shows the farthest galaxy cluster ever detected. Designated JKCS041, the cluster is ...

It's been an impressive year for astronomy so far as scientists have broken records for the most distant star and the most distant galaxy ever discovered. The distant objects were spotted even without ...

An international team of astronomers has spotted the most distant astronomical object ever: a galaxy. Shining only approximately 300 million years after the Big Bang, it may be home to the oldest ...

This is an artist’s impression of JADES-GS-z14-0, which as of today is the most distant confirmed galaxy. Galaxies in the early Universe tend to be clumpy and irregular. Supernova explosions in this ...

Using the power of multiple space telescopes (including a retired one), scientists have confirmed the existence of what could be the farthest galaxy ever detected in human history. hd1 galaxy YouTube ...

On Thursday NASA and the European Space Agency released the ultimate photo throwback: an image of the farthest galaxy ever seen. A red dot above the big dipper, the spot is 13.4 billion years old, ...

A team of astronomers used the Keck I telescope to measure the distance to an ancient galaxy. They deduced the target galaxy GN-z11 is not only the oldest galaxy but also the most distant. It's so ...