Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

A galaxy in a practically empty area of the universe seems to be impossibly forming stars, and new observations have only deepened the puzzle ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

The potential finds could be contributing to some of the faintest light we can see in the universe, say researchers.

The ESA's Euclid space telescope has been in space for just over a year, investigating some of the deepest mysteries of the ...

The first image from the Vera C. Rubin telescope reveals a previously unnoticed feature of the galaxy M61 that may explain ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending assumptions that it was dominated by dark matter ...

A vast river of neutral hydrogen bridges two galaxies that are beginning to enter the monstrous Virgo Cluster, and this structure is helping astronomers better understand our Milky Way's relationship ...