If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

A spectacular new view of two dwarf galaxies caught in the middle of a cosmic collision reveals a glowing gas bridge, streams ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a new kind of galactic portrait, revealing a luminous thread of gas and newborn ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to date of the cosmos' "first steps" toward forming the first stars and ...

NASA released exciting information on Thursday regarding the discovery of "monster stars" and "spiral galaxies." Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers were able to identify nine "monster stars ...

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...

A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a ...

The vantage point at Cerro Pachón, with its dark skies and high-altitude clarity, enhances the richness of the image.

A montage of eight time-delay gravitational lens systems. There’s an entire galaxy at the center of each image, and the ...