The colossal jets are emitted by the black hole and influence various processes within and around the galaxy. For instance, ...

Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

A stunning new discovery has revealed a massive spiral galaxy, located nearly 1 billion light-years away, that is doing ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

New data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope has allowed astronomers to travel back in time to the dawn of the universe.

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the ...

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy, a star-scape beaming light just 300 million years after the Big ...

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...

Though tiny, this newfound satellite galaxy around M31 offers big lessons — and questions — about how galaxies evolve.

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.