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

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

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

The galaxy NGC 941 was imaged by the Subaru Telescope at the summit of Maunakea, Hawai'i.

The strange signal - the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected - was captured by South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope from a galaxy over 8 billion light-years away ...

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 ...

Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.

Light released by a distant star does not simply wink out after crossing some threshold of space. In a vacuum, photons keep moving indefinitely, and astronomers routinely detect light that has ...