Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

Study: How Much Information Can Be Extracted from Galaxy Clustering at the Field Level? (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.221006)Research led by the ...

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...

Space exploration also helps us understand the building blocks of the universe by studying cosmic phenomena like black holes, ...

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

A team of astronomers led by University of Arizona researcher Catherine Fielder captured the most precise photographs of a small galaxy and its surroundings re ...