For more than three decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has collected targeted images to answer specific scientific questions ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming stars at an intense rate from collapsing clouds of dust. Reported in ...

In its first year of full operations, the Euclid space telescope has quietly built one of the most ambitious maps of the universe ever attempted, cataloging 1.2 million galaxies while it was still in ...

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Astronomers have discovered powerful magnetic fields steering gas, dust, and star formation in a dramatic galaxy merger.

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence ...

This image shows a small section of NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's total view of the Virgo cluster of galaxies, including two spiral galaxies (lower right) and three merging galaxies (upper right ...

A massive galaxy transitioning to a quiescent phase (left) while hosting an active supermassive black hole at its center (artist’s conception, right). An international of researchers including the ...

A pair of interacting galaxies, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) started collecting data nearly three years ago, and it ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this is a newly found type of star-forming galaxy. When you purchase through ...