The clashing galaxies NGC 4568 (bottom) and NGC 4567 (top) as seen by the Gemini North telescope in Hawai‘i A 100-year-old mystery surrounding the "shape-shifting" nature of some galaxies has been ...

Our Milky Way galaxy has an elegant spiral shape with long arms filled with stars, but exactly how it took this form has long puzzled scientists. New observations of another galaxy are shedding light ...

At least some evidence suggests that NGC 2775 developed its odd shape after merging with other galaxies eons ago. While not ...

A century-old mystery of how galaxies change shapes has been solved by considering 'survival of the fittest' collisions between cosmic titans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...

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It looks like a tiny galaxy, but it's just one big star. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As if cracking open a cosmic Russian ...

The Milky Way galaxy may be just one of trillions in the observable Universe, but it's uniquely special as our cosmic home. Composed of a few hundred billion stars, about a trillion solar masses worth ...

Several Brits spotted a mysterious light blue spiral in the sky on Monday night. The strange phenomenon was seen around 8.00pm, raising speculation as to what it might be caused by. Incredible ...

Magnetic fields in NGC 1086, or M77, are shown as streamlines over a visible light and X-ray composite image of the galaxy from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Array, and the ...

Quasar J0742+2704 (center) became the subject of astronomers' interest after it was discovered to have a newborn jet blasting from the disk around its supermassive black hole in 2020, using the Karl G ...