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 ...

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 ...

These cosmic filaments contain 12 trillion solar masses of 10-million-degree gas, helping solve the "missing matter" mystery.

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

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. Credit: ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO / Sergei Balashev ...

The galaxy LEDA 1313424 has been nicknamed the Bullseye Galaxy, thanks to the nine rings that circle its bright center.

The armed galaxy's lance is a quasar, a portmanteau for "quasi-stellar object." "We hence call this system the 'cosmic joust,'" said Pasquier Noterdaeme, one of the researchers from the Institut d ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first cosmic images on 23 June 2025, launching a 10-year sky survey with the world ...

Ultraviolet light from a galaxy observed when the Universe was just 330 million years old has intriguing implications for understanding how the first ... Pinpointing the origins of cosmic ...