Spring skies reveal some of the best galaxies visible to backyard telescopes.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning spiral galaxy 65 million light-years away, revealing glowing dust clouds ...

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our galaxy.

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity ...

NASA said CDG-2 “may be among the most heavily dark matter-dominated galaxies ever discovered” ...

GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...

The jellyfish galaxy in question. The dashed circles mark the four extra-planar sources that are identified in the galaxy’s tail. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal. Astronomers ...

The structure of the local universe is surprisingly flat, according to new research, and this cosmic quirk may save our Milky Way from colliding with countless other massive, nearby galaxies — except ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sliver of space where scientists found Segue 1, a faint dwarf galaxy about 75,000 light-years away, in 2006. - Marla Geha / W.M.

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.