This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.

The neatly arranged chain of 14 galaxies, which is spread across 5.5 million light-years in length and about 117,000 ...

This spinning branch of the cosmic web binds 14 galaxies together. Credit: Lyla Jung. In a recently published study, ...

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

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

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The Gemini North telescope atop Hawaii’s lofty shield volcano Mauna Kea. Credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. Chu / J. Pollard A powerful telescope, perched above the ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...