In the vast expanse of the universe, there are cosmic giants so enormous that they stretch our understanding of scale and ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

The number of known galaxies circling the Milky Way is increasing as we develop new powerful telescopes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

New red galaxies turn out to be already known blue galaxies Date: December 15, 2023 Source: National Institutes of Natural Sciences Summary: Not all discoveries turn out to be actual new discoveries.

Astronomers have finally tracked down missing "ordinary" matter, which they discovered hiding as gas spread out in the vast expanses between galaxies.

All in all, early galaxies seemed to be larger than what the standard model expected by "roughly a factor of two," study co-author Steve Finkelstein, an astrophysicist at the University of Texas ...

One of the farthest known quasars seems to have shut down the creation of new stars in all the galaxies within its vicinity. A quasar is a powerful source of light, created by torrid gas orbiting ...

The survey turned up about 2,500 dwarf galaxies with actively feeding black holes at their centers, up from about 500 known before, researchers report in a paper submitted October 31 to arXiv.org.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose interactions have caused knots to form in the "queen's hair." The galactic duo, formally known as MCG+05-31-045, is located 390 ...

In roughly 4 billion years, our home Milky Way galaxy may collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. We are approaching Andromeda at roughly 250,000 miles per hour, and scientists have ...