The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about ...

Astronomers utilizing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a new class of galaxies that defy traditional ...

Astronomers are gathering in Phoenix this week for the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS 247), where ...

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

NASA’s Webb Telescope has identified compact, mysterious galaxies nicknamed “astronomy’s platypus.” These strange objects ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object, a cloud of dark matter and gas ...

Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA's ...

Astronomers from Cardiff University, UK, have employed the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed look yet at faraway galaxies at the peak of their youth, an active time when the ...

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

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

We often think of galaxies either as individual “island universes” or as a member of a galaxy cluster. But there is another category of association: galaxy groups. Many galaxies — perhaps most in the ...