Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

Far beyond the bright pinwheels and glowing nebulae that dominate space photography, astronomers have finally confirmed ...

Astronomers using Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a new type of cosmic object that is believed to be a “failed ...

It's been named Cloud-9, and it's a mysterious object about 14.3 million light-years away, near the spiral galaxy M94, which ...

Astronomers have finally confirmed the existence of RELHICs—a long-theorized class of dark, starless clouds from the early ...

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...

Measuring the energy of hot gas within a remote group of galaxies reinforces the importance of giant black holes in forming ...

Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have identified an entirely new type of cosmic object. It is a cloud rich ...

Named Y1, the galaxy is bustling with a speedy star formation system unlike any other observed before.

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...

A group of astronomers has discovered a "barred" spiral galaxy from 11.5 billion years ago. That's only 2 billion years after ...