Astronomers have discovered that large flows of cold gas created by collisions between galaxies in the early universe may have forged some of the most monstrous star systems.

A 50-million-light-year-long flow of hydrogen gas has been observed linking two tiny galaxies 50 million light-years away, ...

In the vast universe, a grand event spanning billions of years is quietly brewing — the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy will engage in a stunning 'interstellar collision' in 3.7 billion years. This ...

Hubble has captured a striking new image of NGC 2775, a galaxy that defies easy classification. Blending features of spirals, ...

Get ready to witness our cosmic neighbor like never before! :milky_way: Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher spent 38 hours ...

Astronomers at ICRAR–UWA have discovered a massive hydrogen bridge spanning 185,000 light-years between two dwarf galaxies, ...

The Webb telescope detected interstellar dust from a galaxy that was 114,000 light-years from the galactic core, defying ...

Packed tightly together like twinkling stellar beehives, these globular clusters are made up of hundreds of thousands of ...

A swarm of galaxies called the Bullet Cluster is the biggest, best natural laboratory for studying dark matter that astronomers have ever seen ...

While nearly all massive galaxies possess central black holes, the presence of such black holes in dwarf galaxies remains an open question, with previous estimates identifying them in only 0.5% of ...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found a dozen dormant (or affectionately called “sleeping beauty”) galaxies, which are ancient galaxies that have mysteriously stopped forming stars. The surprise ...

In the vast universe, a grand event spanning billions of years is quietly brewing—the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will stage a stunning 'interstellar collision' in 3.7 billion years. This ...