Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

The vantage point at Cerro Pachón, with its dark skies and high-altitude clarity, enhances the richness of the image.

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

The importance of darkness, solar eclipses, Mars, the Webb Telescope and just how dangerous space is are the subjects for ...

Scientists have finally confirmed a powerful coronal mass ejection from another star, using LOFAR radio data paired with ...

From Molecules to Galaxies, organized by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from across the Penn State ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025 that may ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95 percent is made of dark matter and dark energy. Exactly what these dark components are remains a mystery, but they ...