Travel 60 million light-years away into the constellation Virgo to catch a glimpse of interacting galaxies NGC 4568 and NGC ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured amazing imagery of merging galaxies II ZW 96. The merger is located 500 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Delphinus. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, ...

When studying local galaxy cluster Abell 3667, Anthony Englert GS, a Ph.D. candidate in physics, noticed something unique. Connecting the brightest galaxies in two small clusters within Abell 3667 was ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Stephan's Quintet is a four-galaxy merger (with a fifth galaxy photobombing the action) in the ...

Most stars in the universe today are found in massive galaxies called ellipticals, named for their stretched-out-circle shape. Unlike our own galaxy, which is a spiral with arms extending out from the ...

Perched high in the foothills of Chile’s Andes mountains, a revolutionary new space telescope has just taken its first pictures of the cosmos—and they’re spectacular. Astronomers are excited about the ...

Researchers have found evidence of magnetic fields associated with a disc of gas and dust a few hundred light-years across deep inside a system of two merging galaxies known as Arp220. They say these ...

Webb Telescope detected a possible direct collapse black hole between two merging galaxies called the "Infinity Galaxy." ...

Deep in outer space, astronomers have discovered another "odd radio circle" — the latest in a short list of mysterious rings ...

The finding offers tantalizing clues in the ongoing quest to piece together the origins of ORCs—mysterious, ring-shaped radio ...