A vast river of neutral hydrogen bridges two galaxies that are beginning to enter the monstrous Virgo Cluster, and this ...

Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) has turned the invisible into the vivid. It captured glowing cosmic dust heated by ...

Astronomers detected a black hole displaced nearly a kiloparsec from the center of a dwarf galaxy 230 million light-years ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of Sagittarius B2, a highly active star-forming region near the Milky Way's center. Utilizing NIRCam and MIRI, Webb's observations ...

If the thought of a supermassive black hole terrifies you, a new study may provide some relief. Scientists say that these galactic giants might not actually be as big as we thought.

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

An international team of astronomers has performed photometric and spectroscopic observations of a compact stellar system ...

Astronomers use simulations to discover how globular clusters form and reveal a new type of star system near the Milky Way.

New radio astronomy results reveal how galaxies exchange gas with the intergalactic medium – the raw material for stars and ...

The team at the University of New Hampshire worked on a mission that will help answer questions about how life formed on ...

Primordial magnetic fields, billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet, may have left lasting imprints on the Universe.

The recently discovered galaxy, known as SDSS J011754.86+095819.0, or dE01+09, seems to be one of these "runaway" systems.