Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered a massive, Milky Way-like spiral galaxy—Zhúl ...

Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of ...

Arp 91 is a pair of interacting galaxies, NGC 5953 and NGC 5954, located over 100 million light-years from Earth. Arp 143 is a spectacular image capturing a head-on collision between two galaxies, NGC ...

Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space ...

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 ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek Space:1999 free-floating planets, As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the ...

Scientists have uncovered a massive galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. But how did this colossal ...

There are plenty of planets to spot during April, too. Mars, for example, will be high overhead in the south each evening. You can identify it by its salmon-pink color, and when you do, ponder for a ...

One of the first verified predictions of general relativity is the gravitational deflection of starlight. The effect was ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in that galaxy is rotating.

This stretches the image of the spiral galaxy behind it into a ring ... be seen when it comes to light curvature at astronomical distances. For example, when light from one galaxy bends around another ...