Hubble dimmed quasar 3C 273’s glare to reveal ghostly blobs and filaments near its core—evidence of galaxy cannibalism and ...

Galaxies may not be as simple as "young and blue" or "old and red." A new idea from astrophysicist Charles Steinhardt proposes a third type: red star-forming galaxies that break the mold. These galaxi ...

A team of astronomers has discovered what appears to be a previously undetected population of "hidden" galaxies that could ...

Travel 60 million light-years away into the constellation Virgo to catch a glimpse of interacting galaxies NGC 4568 and NGC ...

A new computer simulation from NASA's Ames Research Center shows what galaxy mergers might look like over billions of years.

The researchers led by the Science and Technology Facilities Council the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Imperial College ...

Researchers mapped a far-infrared landscape brimming with nearly 2,000 galaxies. There may be "hidden galaxies" lurking just ...

Astronomer Charles Steinhardt said most stars we see "might have formed under different conditions than we previously believed." ...

Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of 'hidden' galaxies that could hold the key to unlocking some of the universe's secrets. If their existence is confirmed it ...

"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been ...

A recent study has shown that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy approximately 200,000 light-years from ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...