The rotating disk galaxy, mostly made up of dark matter, was discovered within a larger cloud of fast-moving hydrogen gas.

Astronomers have found more ORCs in the years since those initial discoveries, and some of them also appear to have a galaxy ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...

Euclid's first data release offers a breathtaking glimpse into our universe, revealing over 26 million galaxies and ...

A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the charming Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the ...

A newly discovered comet, C/2025 F2 (SWAN), is now visible in the eastern sky before dawn. Officially designated on April 8, ...

But new research at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) shows that the satellite galaxies of the neighbouring Andromeda galaxy (M31) have surprising and thus far unexplained ...

"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been observed in the past." ...

The 2025-26 season lineup of shows at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center was announced Monday. The new season is focused on the them of discovery, said Maria Van Laanen, president and CEO of ...

An extreme protocluster gathering of infant galaxies is hiding a vast cosmic fuel tank that is powering 400 million years of ...

The star cluster is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way galaxy that sits ... This ...