New research suggests that the Milky Way should be surrounded by as many as 100 undetected tiny and faint "orphan" galaxy ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has performed deep and high spectral ...

Scientists have used machine learning to dramatically speed up the processing time when simulating galaxy evolution coupled ...

Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...

Comet 31/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object to ever be observed whizzing through the Solar System. While its origins ...

After the great success of our Thinkshop on ‘The role of feedback in galaxy formation’ in 2018, we are delighted to once again welcome over 150 scientists to the AIP. The international exchange and ...

IC 1101 holds the title of the largest galaxy known to humanity, and its colossal size is almost beyond comprehension.

NASA’s Hubble and Webb telescopes observe explosive star formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud's NGC 460 and NGC 456 clusters.

New research suggests that the Milky Way may host more satellite galaxies than previously predicted, thanks to advanced ...

If you happen to find yourself in the Southern Hemisphere with binoculars and a good view of the night sky on a dark and clear summer night, you might ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and his team have discovered direct evidence of a black hole birth in a recently-collided galaxy duo named 'Infinity'.