The Sombrero galaxy, named for its resemblance to the Mexican hat, is about 30 million light-years from Earth.

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would ...

A galaxy cluster bends light from seven background galaxies around it, letting astronomers peer into space and time ...

The object, with the catchy moniker of NGC1052-DF2, appears to contain no dark matter. If this turns out to be true, it may be the first galaxy of its kind - made up only of ordinary matter.

That is the Milky Way, our home galaxy, and you can see it best on dark, clear nights in the summer. It contains hundreds of billions of stars, including the sun that we orbit. It also has dust ...

While confirming a dark galaxy is challenging, there are several candidates that meet the criteria. Moreover, there are galaxies that, while not entirely dark, come close to that definition due to ...