Spring skies reveal some of the best galaxies visible to backyard telescopes.

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our galaxy.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning spiral galaxy 65 million light-years away, revealing glowing dust clouds ...

Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...

GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...

Two powerful instruments of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope joined forces to create this scenic galaxy view. This ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity ...

The jellyfish galaxy in question. The dashed circles mark the four extra-planar sources that are identified in the galaxy’s tail. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal. Astronomers ...

A newly discovered jellyfish galaxy, seen as it existed 8.5 billion years ago, is challenging assumptions about conditions in the early universe. Astrophysicists at the University of Waterloo have ide ...

NASA said CDG-2 “may be among the most heavily dark matter-dominated galaxies ever discovered” ...

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...