The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose interactions have caused knots to form in the ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—nearly as massive ...

An international team that includes the University of Bath in the UK has discovered three ultra-massive galaxies (‘Red ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

A recent study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics revealed an exciting new discovery: a ‘cosmic tunnel’ in ...

Princeton University graduate student Jiaxuan Li (李嘉轩) was part of a team seeking dwarf galaxies orbiting the spiral galaxy ...

An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

A team led by Dante Minniti and including Vatican Observatory scholars maps the Milky Way in stunning detail. Built from ...