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

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

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

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

The filament is a part of the vast cosmic web composed primarily of dark matter and interspersed with lighter layers of ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

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

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been revealed by a new study.

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Scientists once thought the early universe didn't make them.