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

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

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

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

The attack on NASA is particularly focused on research into climate change and continues the trend, under both Republicans ...

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 ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

Its bright center and the prominent ... It is over ten times further away from us than our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy, and was first discovered in 1781. Observations suggest the Sombrero ...

The Milky Way galaxy, Andromeda, and all our respective satellites ... a cosmic structure of mind-boggling size whose common gravitational center is known as the Great Attractor.

In 1923, Edwin Hubble captured a pulsing star within the Andromeda Galaxy on a glass ... with the mass of 6.5 billion suns at the center of the giant galaxy Messier 87 (M87).