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

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

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

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

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

Computer algorithms can model the universe, matching simulations to observations and revealing the distribution of dark ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...