The James Webb Space Telescope has peered through cosmic dust to reveal new details and a stunning image of a rare type of galaxy. The space observatory's latest image shows the Cartwheel galaxy, a ...

Here's some good news: Our galaxy may not be destined to end in a fiery collision with the Andromeda galaxy as soon as previously thought. While earlier research regarded the collision as a virtual ...

Examples of merging galaxies containing a heavily obscured growing supermassive black hole observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The top panels show nearby galaxies at ~500 million light-years from ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Last month when scientists announced new ...

A high-resolution colour image showing the central galaxies NGC5713 and NGC5719 taken by the Hyper Suprime-Cam at the Subaru telescope in Hawaii. A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as ...

Using early data from the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope, astronomers have analyzed over one million galaxies to test a long-standing idea in astrophysics: that galaxy mergers help ...

Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum plaguing the standard model of cosmology. When you purchase through links on our ...

A 50-million-light-year-long flow of hydrogen gas has been observed linking two tiny galaxies 50 million light-years away, giving astronomers a spectacular view of how galaxies attract, warp, and ...