Astronomers are closer than ever to working out how the biggest galaxies in the cosmos grew so quickly before dying.

A breathtaking galactic collision in Stephan's Quintet has been observed, in which five galaxies collide at two million mph, ...

Prior to this discovery, made as part of the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST's) Galactic Legacy Infrared Midplane Survey ...

A NASA telescope has made a 12.8-billion-year-old discovery at the edge of our universe, one which astronomers say should not ...

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

Edwin Hubble's revelation in 1924 that the Andromeda Nebula was, in fact, an 'island universe,' was a pivotal moment in our ...

Astronomers have spotted a trio of supermassive galaxies that were already fully formed in the first billion years of the ...

Two far-away galaxies have been described as “blood-soaked eyes” by NASA after the Hubble and James Webb Space telescopes captured an intriguing video of the two colliding galaxies. NASA says ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument uses a telescope in Tucson, Arizona, to create a map of the universe's ...

While astronomers have taken about two dozen zoomed-in images of stars in our galaxy, unveiling their properties, countless other stars dwell within other galaxies, so far away that observing even one ...

In this new effort, the research team has found, for the first time, two galaxies that align in a way that allows their gravity to work as a compound lens. A compound lens, as its name suggests ...