An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

The discovery potentially transforms what we think about how the cosmic environment influences galaxies as they form.

The violent head-on-collision of two galaxies some 180 million light-years away from Earth appears to one of the world's most powerful telescopes like a deceptively serene cosmic butterfly flapping ...

This movie follows the formation of galaxies with cosmic time, illustrating how ultraviolet (UV) radiation from other galaxies and from quasars suppresses the formation of stars inside small galaxies ...

Two far-away galaxies have been described as “blood-soaked eyes” by NASA after the Hubble and James Webb Space telescopes captured an intriguing video of the two colliding galaxies. NASA says the ...

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

Astronomers have discovered a previously hidden "cosmic fuel tank" in an infant cluster of forming galaxies. This vast reservoir of cool molecular gas is found in the protocluster known as SPT2349-56, ...

The Gemini North telescope team released footage of galaxy NGC 4449 to celebrate the observatory's 25th anniversary. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Research reveals a shocking discovery about the history of our universe: the Milky Way Galaxy's last major collision occurred billions of years later than previously thought. Rensselaer Polytechnic ...

Kokoro Hosogi, a physics student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has achieved a rare honor for an undergraduate: her contributions are being recognized in a study published in the ...

Just as the sun has planets and the planets have moons, our galaxy has satellite galaxies, and some of those might have smaller satellite galaxies of their own. To wit, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC ...