Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the ...

Throughout cosmic evolution, although dwarf galaxies are individually small, they are numerous and serve as the fundamental ...

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In a discovery that sounds straight out of science fiction, astronomers have spotted a galaxy shaped like the infinity symbol ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

The spiral galaxy M83 is captured face-on, providing a clear view of its full structure. Chandra's X-ray data reveals ...

In the sprawling Hydra constellation, 137 million light-years away, lies NGC 3285B—a dazzling spiral galaxy recently ...

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

"We'll have to rewrite our interpretation of these flares and what they can teach us about the monsters lying in the centers ...

Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...