Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

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

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

Euclid’s first deep-field survey has captured 26 million galaxies, some over 10 billion light-years away, offering a preview of its mission to chart a third of the sky in stunning detail. AI and ...

JWST recently caught three of the universe’s earliest galaxies in the act of pulling themselves together from a giant, dark cloud of hydrogen gas. The three dim spots of red light in a recent batch of ...

Galaxy clusters are formed by a dense packing of many galaxies, making them the most massive structures in the universe.

After combing through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of ...

Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, but there are ways for stars to escape into intergalactic space.

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