If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...

A spectacular new view of two dwarf galaxies caught in the middle of a cosmic collision reveals a glowing gas bridge, streams ...

The discovery potentially transforms what we think about how the cosmic environment influences galaxies as they form.

A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

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This spinning branch of the cosmic web binds 14 galaxies together. Credit: Lyla Jung. In a recently published study, ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

Two barred spiral galaxies, known as NGC 7733 and NGC 7734, are in the process of merging. The lower galaxy has a dusty knot atop its upper arm, which marks a third galactic companion. | Credit: ...