A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

Scientists are keen to get to the bottom of the dark matter puzzle because this phenomenon accounts for the vast majority of ...

The “ghost towns,” named Sculptor A, B, and C, consist of three faint and ultra-faint galaxies about 6.5 million light-years ...

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...

The galaxy, located in the constellation Leo, is about the same size as a star cluster within the Milky Way and is about the ...

The Andromeda galaxy, our closest large galactic neighbor, is a treasure trove of stars and cosmic mysteries. Thanks to ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has generated the most comprehensive survey yet of the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest galactic ...