The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is viewed face-on in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image that incorporates six different ...

"This shocking result means that we now need to revisit the very foundations of everything we know about cosmology," said the reseachers.

From the ocean’s rolling swells to the bumpy ride of a jetliner, turbulence is everywhere. Yet despite its ubiquity, ...

Rather than solid arms, spiral galaxies may show density waves—regions where matter slows down and bunches up, like cars in ...

W hen astronomers first spotted Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1, it caused a little excitement. The group of stars at the edge of the ...

Ralf Klessen investigates the physical processes that governed the formation of the first generation of stars in the early ...

These hidden giants typically remain quiet, only revealing themselves when they consume nearby stars or gas clouds ... away ...

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...

A thin shell of air wraps around Earth, stretching about 20 miles above the surface. This invisible veil is packed with tiny ...

Elliptical galaxies are some of the oldest types of galaxies in the universe. They formed relatively quickly after the Big ...

Astronomers have developed a computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the ...