The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral ...

What happens when you build the largest digital camera on Earth, capable of capturing 3.2 gigapixel images, and aim it at the ...

Astronomers detect an ultramassive black hole weighing 36 billion suns in the galaxy LRG 3-757, a record thanks to ...

Meanwhile, distant galaxies glimmer in the background of the image. The galaxy — also known as Messier 104, or M104 — is about 30 million light-years from Earth in the Virgo constellation.

As seen from Earth, ... The farthest background galaxy is so distant that it must have developed in an early phase of the universe, which most scientists think is around 13.7 billion years old.

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

We may already have had our first-ever encounter with dark matter, according to researchers who say a mysteriously ...

The Milky Way galaxy may collide with the Andromeda galaxy in billions of years, creating an even bigger galaxy. Experts explain what will happen to Earth.

When low-energy microwave photons encounter a galaxy cluster on their way to Earth, they’re scattered to higher energies by the gas, or the plasma inside of the galaxy cluster,” he says.

An object once thought to be a radio galaxy is actually an active black hole that changed angles to point directly at Earth, new research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Passing through the Milky Way’s arms may have helped form Earth’s solid ground. Our planet’s journey through the galaxy syncs up with the rhythm of long-ago crust formation ...