Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...

Astronomers studied 10,000 stars in Hubble pictures to make this composite image and to learn about the evolution of the Milky Way galaxy. Light from our own galaxy is the most recently produced ...

Webb discovered dozens of small, powerful galaxies from 800 million years ago that likely drove cosmic reionization by emitting strong ultraviolet radiation. Astronomers using data from NASA ’s James ...

Astronomers have created a galactic masterpiece: an ultra-detailed image that reveals previously unseen features in the Sculptor galaxy. Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...

Astronomers from the University of Arizona have taken a detailed look at these unusual chaotic galaxies, also known as luminous and ultra-luminous infrared galaxies, or LIRGs and ULIRGs. These are ...

A new batch of 15 Giant Radio Galaxies, the largest of which is 12.4 light-years wide, could help reveal how black holes and galactic mergers help the universe's largest single objects grow so large.

This Hubble image shows IC 758, a barred spiral galaxy some 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major. The color image is made up of observations from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for ...

By tracing where dust hides newborn stars, Hubble's sharp view reveals the structure of stellar nurseries in this nearby galaxy. Galactic Cotton Candy: Nebula and Stars According to NASA's official ...

A family album of the universe Galaxies are not isolated in a vaccum. They gather into groups and clusters, forming what astronomers call the cosmic web. These groups can include just a few galaxies, ...

An international team of scientists has unveiled the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever created using the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing nearly 800,000 galaxies stretching ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a 50-50 chance within the next 10 billion years. That's essentially a ...