In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

Credit: Bagchi and Ray et al/Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (CC BY 4.0) Nearly a billion light-years away, a massive spiral galaxy is screaming into the void ... at the Space Telescope Science ...

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

The unusually large, luminous distant galaxy, called JADES-GS-z14-0, was initially detected in January 2024 using the James Webb Space Telescope, which observes the universe in infrared light that ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency—is the most distant known galaxy. Its light takes a whopping 13.4 billion years to reach us, meaning that we see it at a time when the the ...

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous galaxy bursting with new star formation. This intermediate spiral galaxy is located about 50 million light-years from Earth in ...