Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...

See amazing views of the M74, NGC 7496, IC 5332, NGC 1365, and NGC 1433 galaxies captured using the James Webb Space ...

The latest data release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) includes observations revealing the internal structure and composition of nearly 5,000 nearby galaxies observed during the first three ...

The James Webb Space Telescope observed 19 nearby face-on spiral galaxies in near- and mid-infrared light as part of its contributions to the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS ...

Webb reveals a bridge of stars linking two nearby dwarf galaxies, offering a look at how gravity reshapes galaxies and sparks ...

Image of the irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A, located at a distance of about 4 million light years from us, towards the edge of the Local Group, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope), an Italian ...

According to the standard model of cosmology, the vast majority of galaxies are surrounded by a halo of dark matter particles. This halo is invisible, but its mass exerts a strong gravitational pull ...

The universe teems with systems of two stars orbiting each other in a seemingly endless cosmic dance. Scientists have long hypothesized that one out of three massive stars in these binaries have their ...

Could a black hole reveal clues about the Epoch of Reionization? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Nearby galaxies and their black ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over how some massive galaxies stop forming stars and remain dormant for billions of years—even ...

The discovery of thousands more galaxies with stars ringing their main disks could help astronomers study galactic evolution ...

Observations of ultra-massive galaxies, each containing more than 100 billion stars, show that less than 2 billion years ...