A newly discovered barred spiral galaxy dating back 11.1 billion years is rewriting what scientists know about galactic ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from 11.1 billion years ago has been discovered, showing star-forming activity and gas ...

The Knife Edge Galaxy is located some 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco, according to NASA. NGC ...

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Surveying nearby galaxies in the process of merging with other galaxies, astronomers have identified massive, dense star ...

Scientists have long assumed the Oort Cloud, one of the most mysterious structures in our solar system, to be spherical.

Behind this galaxy’s calm facade lies the fingerprint of a long-dead giant star. A violent supernova once rocked its ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question ...

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New near-infrared observations by the James Webb Space Telescope highlight a tightly packed group of stars at the peculiar ...

A new study suggests they may have a ghostly shadow—trailing dark matter spirals hovering above and below them. A team of ...

A team of scientists accidentally visualized a hidden spiral in the Oort Cloud, and it might change everything we know about ...