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 ...

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

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

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 ...

For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters ...

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

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 ...

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 ...