A new study of M31, also known as Andromeda, explains how our cosmic neighbor kills off smaller nearby galaxies.

Will the universe keep existing forever? An astrophysicist explains how scientists aren’t entirely sure, but they can make ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has peered into a dim galaxy, and investigated the star formation within it. The observation was ...

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery about NGC 6789, an isolated dwarf galaxy located 12 million light-years away in ...

JWST infrared technology pierces cosmic dust with unmatched clarity, revealing hidden star nurseries and structures no ...

A baby galaxy is throwing one heck of a tantrum, and it's shaking up our understanding of the earliest galaxies.

The first test image from the telescope in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has revealed a previously unnoticed trail of light that could give insight into both the history and abnormalities of the M61 ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid mission—designed to map the geometry of the dark universe with unprecedented ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new dusty star-forming galaxy at high redshift. The newfound ...

Astronomers have identified a compact, superheated galaxy in the early universe that is churning out new suns at roughly 180 ...

Imaging shows NGC 6789 building stars in near-total isolation, pushing scientists to rethink gas supply and formation in ...