A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...

There are literally billions upon billions of galaxies out there in the cosmos, but the Milky Way is just a little bit ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching colossal jets of energy, something once thought possible only in elliptical ...

We named this galaxy Zhúlóng, meaning ‘Torch Dragon’ in Chinese mythology.

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of astronomers over the centuries. Originally discovered in the 1700s by ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

"If a spiral galaxy can not only survive but thrive under such extreme conditions, what does this mean for the future of galaxies like our own Milky Way? "Could our galaxy one day experience ...

This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or ...