New observations of a pair of colliding spiral galaxies hint at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and when they collide. The findings, described in July in the ...

Two small companion galaxies also appear in the image. The Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories have studied the Cartwheel, but accumulations of dust have obscured the galaxy's mysteries.

In the direction of Pisces, approximately 560 million light-years from Earth, scientists have discovered a particularly ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have stumbled upon a puzzling population of galaxies that look far too ...

Astronomers captured a stunning view of spiral galaxy NGC 7497 entangled in dusty clouds of the Milky Way, with faint ...

Supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies regularly collide when their host galaxies merge, creating gravitational waves that ripple through space-time itself.

After several hyper-fast white dwarf stars were discovered, there is now an explanation. The objects are the product of a ...

In the past, scientists often thought these extremely bright objects weren't early galaxies, but something else that mimicked them.

The discovery could challenge current ideas about how galaxies formed in the early universe.