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

To the unaided human eye, the night sky is resplendent with over 9,000 individual points of light, but that perspective covers only a bare fraction of the universe. When you purchase through links on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The farthest type Ia supernova, our most distant "standard candle" for ...

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 ...