Astronomers have surveyed massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way, in a large number of galaxies across the local universe. The findings provide a rare glimpse into ...

NASA’s Webb telescope reveals monster star clumps in galactic wreckage Surveying luminous infrared galaxies in the local universe, astronomers have obtained a rare glimpse into processes shaping ...

Supermassive black holes grow primarily in two ways. They can consume gas from their host galaxies in a process called ...

It’s one of the biggest questions humans have asked themselves since the dawn of time, but we might be closer than ever to understanding how the universe developed the way it did and we all came to be ...

Scientists have long thought the Milky Way galaxy would someday collide with its closest neighbor, Andromeda. (CREDIT: NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger) ...

What happens when galaxies collide? Both not much and a whole lot. The thing to keep in mind is that there’s a lot of empty space between the stars. If the two galaxies do collide, the chances of ...

For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Museum of Natural History. But other galaxies await. Carter Emmart, director of astro-visualization at the ...

Researchers now know that those galaxies aren’t randomly distributed. Gravity and dark matter pull and guide them into a structure that resembles a spider’s web or a tub of bubbles.

Our galaxy may not collide with its neighbor after all, suggests new research. For over a century, astronomers believed a dramatic collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies was ...