Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

The discovery of thousands more galaxies with stars ringing their main disks could help astronomers study galactic evolution ...

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

Euclid’s first deep-field survey has captured 26 million galaxies, some over 10 billion light-years away, offering a preview of its mission to chart a third of the sky in stunning detail. AI and ...

JWST recently caught three of the universe’s earliest galaxies in the act of pulling themselves together from a giant, dark cloud of hydrogen gas. The three dim spots of red light in a recent batch of ...

Galaxy clusters are formed by a dense packing of many galaxies, making them the most massive structures in the universe.

Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, but there are ways for stars to escape into intergalactic space.

After combing through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of ...

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