Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's ...

Yale astronomers have announced the discovery of a galaxy with nine concentric rings—the most rings ever seen in a single ...

The rings are regions of higher density, where the galactic material has been pushed together by the rippling shocks. The ...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a record-smashing galaxy wrapped in 9 rings of stars — along with ...

G alaxy LEDA 1313424 is a beauty. It is 2.5 times the size of the Milky Way and has something no other galaxy has: A series ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

Ring galaxies are some of the rarest galaxies found ... Josh Hawkins has been writing for over a decade, covering science, gaming, and tech culture. He also is a top-rated product reviewer with ...

Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...