Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a ...

The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly ...

A high-speed crash between two dwarf galaxies might explain a unique feature in space – and provide useful information on ...

The universe is undergoing an accelerated expansion, but the rate of that expansion has been a very controversial topic over ...

An international team of astronomers has managed to peer into the first billion years of the cosmos thanks to the Atacama ...

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

Astronomers observe intra-group light -- the elusive glow between distant galaxies Date: November 23, 2022 Source: University of New South Wales Summary: ...

Stephan's Quintet is an interesting group of galaxies. It looks like five galaxies clustered together in the sky, so when they were discovered in the 19th century, that's how they were cataloged.

Held together by their mutual gravity, several of the dwarf galaxies (designated D1 to D5) are rhythmically dancing with one another while others are engaged in a "cosmic tug of war," ripping gas and ...

Discovery of a Rare Group of Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Universe. Journal: The Astrophysical Journal Letters Published: 2024-11-19 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad8f3c Affiliations: 5 Authors: 6. Go to ...

These galaxies – some hundreds of them and called the Little Red Dots – are very red and compact, and visible only during about 1 billion years of cosmic history.

The spiral galaxy Messier 33 (M33), also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, after the Andromeda galaxy (M31) and our own Milky Way ...