An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

A team of scientists has proposed a groundbreaking new theory on the Universe's origins, offering a fresh, radical take on ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

Curiosity got the better of the Milky Way—it just had to know what would happen if it collided with Andromeda. So it took a ...

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals how the dark matter is distributed.

In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of optical astronomy.

JWST’s Near-Infrared Camera captured this galaxy-filled field as part of the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey. Some of the most distant galaxies, which formed within 1 billion years ...

Spatial patterns in distribution of galaxies Date: March 14, 2023 Source: Princeton University Summary: In an unlikely pairing, a chemist and an astrophysicist applied the tools of statistical ...

The newly identified galaxies are also embedded in that early era’s most massive dark matter halos — blobs of invisible, unidentified particles that surround galaxies (SN: 3/3/18, p. 8).

An artist's rendering of the galaxies hiding beyond the veil of the Milky Way. ICRAR Hundreds of galaxies have been playing a cosmic game of hide and seek, and astronomers just tagged them "it ...

Science Space NASA Our universe mastered the art of making galaxies while it was still young New images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the ages of hundreds of galaxies surrounding ours.