MUSE survey, an international team of astronomers has inspected a nuclear star cluster of the nearby large spiral galaxy ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers from Stanford University and elsewhere have conducted deep X-ray observations of a nearby galaxy known as NGC 3221. The new observational campaign ...

Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...

A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked at the center of Segue 1, a tiny dwarf galaxy about 75,000 light‑years from ...

The 13th day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features part of a dense cluster of galaxies—a wide variety of shapes, colors, and distances.

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

Amazon titan Jeff Bezos has put the final touches on his marital home — and one of them seems plucked from another galaxy.