Kartheik Iyer, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, was the co-author on the paper on Firefly Sparkle. It ...

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

We know that interstellar objects occasionally visit our solar system. So far, we have only discovered two interstellar ...

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

A long-standing mystery about a strange cluster of stars in our galaxy may have finally been solved by scientists. The stars ...

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

NASA astronauts on the ISS share images of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. It can be hard to see from Earth, but the view ...

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

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

In this one-minute clip posted to X from the International Space Station (ISS) social media account, SpaceX's Crew Dragon ...

NASA's Webb Telescope 'weighs' galaxy Firefly Sparkle, revealing its mass and star formation processes 600 million years ...