Research shows that galaxies form inside gigantic haloes of dark matter, the elusive substance that doesn't interact with ...

The WEAVE telescope has documented a high-speed collision of galaxies in Stephan's Quintet, revealing the powerful shockwaves ...

The formation of galaxies in the universe should follow a fairly simple path. It starts with small galaxies, which then grow ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made an exciting new discovery that could rewrite our understanding of the early ...

The collision in Stephan's Quintet was observed by WEAVE, a new instrument on one of the world's most powerful telescopes, in ...

"Maybe we didn't understand the universe as well as we thought," said astrophysicist Justus Gibson of CU Boulder.

We are the Universe trying to understand itself. How, and why, did we come to be? Why does the Universe take the shape it ...

The infrared-light image captured by the JWST's MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) reveals the galaxy in a totally different way ...

Astronomers often use the Milky Way as a standard for studying how galaxies form and evolve. Since we’re inside it, ...

A new astronomical instrument has had its first outing observing the velocities of colliding galaxies in the famous Stephan’s ...

NGC 602 is a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud (one of our satellite galaxies), where astronomers using ...

An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar ...