An international team of astronomers reports the detection of a peculiar merger of two similar ring galaxies that ...

A groundbreaking discovery has emerged from a recent study led by astronomers from Tsinghua University in Beijing. The ...

Learn how scientists found the universe's missing matter hiding in a massive cosmic filament stretching 23.5 million ...

The galaxy known to observers as NGC 2566 is located in the constellation Puppis and features stars in the formation of spiral arms and a disk, giving it the appearance of a cosmic eye gazing ...

Proving that sometimes it's not what you look at in the night sky that matters but how you look at it, the new image somewhat resembles a cosmic face. The two galaxy cores become its bright "eyes ...

Not only did the new observations show how a cosmic collision helps a quasar light up, it also revealed that the quasar can be a weapon of mass destruction, snuffing out another galaxy's ability ...

A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form ...

A galaxy hosting a quasar in the distant universe, right, jabs another galaxy with its beam of intense radiation as the two bump and collide.

Are the Cosmic Gems the earliest star clusters ever detected? The second possible explanation is that the galaxy contains a large proportion of stars that have very high masses (100–300 times ...