Around 50 million years ago, a blue dwarf galaxy shot through the center of an enormous galaxy more than twice the size of ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

The research team said these rings likely formed when a smaller galaxy shot through the heart of the Bullseye galaxy roughly ...

NASA's Hubble captured LEDA 1313424, a galaxy with record-breaking nine star-filled rings, formed by a rare dwarf galaxy ...

In a study published today by The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a research team led by Yale University’s Imad Pasha ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Imad Pasha, the lead researcher and a doctoral student at Yale University called it a "serendipitous discovery" because it ...

This stunning image of NGC 6951 is captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cepheus. It is located at a distance of about 75 million light-years ...

The eight ripples seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in this cosmic scene marks the most ever seen in any galaxy, and data ...

The Milky Way’s future holds a terrifying possibility—a collision with its neighbor that could rip apart stars, planets, and perhaps even Earth. The chaos would be nothing short of cosmic ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic collision. NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy ...