When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Andre van der Hoeven (Netherlands) combined different datasets in the archives of the Hubble ...

Astronomers have caught multiple massive galaxies in the act of merging about 4 billion years ago. This discovery, made possible by combining the power of the best ground- and space-based telescopes, ...

How do galaxies such as our Milky Way come into existence? How do they grow and change over time? The science behind galaxy formation has remained a puzzle for decades, but a University of Arizona-led ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...

When looking up at the sky, you might think galaxies have always looked the way they do today. But a new study from Princeton University and published in the journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

Astronomers have identified Cloud 9, a nearby dark matter halo filled with gas but no stars. The discovery supports key predictions about how galaxies form and why some never do.

JWST has identified nine distant, compact galaxies that do not fit existing categories, raising new questions about how galaxies formed in the early Universe.