When you gaze up at the night sky, you’re looking back in time. Light from the stars takes years, sometimes millennia, to ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

The universe contains billions of galaxies, each filled with stars, dust and mystery. Here are 12 incredible galaxies, ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

A recent study by EPFL finds that extraterrestrial signals in the Milky Way are likely rare and distant, with few detectable transmissions reaching Earth at any time ...

Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, ESA’s Euclid space observatory, and Hawaii’s Subaru Telescope, the researchers discovered faint light emitting around the clusters. That light was clear ...

A rare jellyfish galaxy discovered by JWST is offering clues about how galaxies died in the early universe.

Astronomers have been watching the supergiant WOH G64 for decades – and it might have turned into a hypergiant and be heading ...

A newly discovered galaxy with glowing star-filled "tentacles" is rewriting parts of cosmic history.

Scientists discovered a distant jellyfish galaxy with star-forming "tails" stretching back 8.5 billion years.

Learn how supermassive black holes may be suppressing star formation in nearby galaxies.

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