Around 50 million years ago, a blue dwarf galaxy shot through the center of an enormous galaxy more than twice the size of ...

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

Matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures, collectively ...

To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

The universe is an expansive place ... But, according to information gleaned from photos of other ring galaxies, they may come from galactic collisions. Based on previous research into ring ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

The quasar in question is called J1601+3102. Its light comes to us from 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Quasars can ...

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

Hidden information in maps of galaxies spread across the universe could soon come forth ... conduct galaxy surveys by taking deep space images on photographic plates and then measuring directly ...

Researchers studied how the universe’s structure changed over time. They found that the universe is less clumpy than expected ...