The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral ...

A vast, glowing halo enveloping a galaxy cluster has been discovered, defying expectations and pointing to turbulent cosmic ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. This image shows another ...

The galaxy clusters involved in this scuffle are part of a larger system—a “combined” galaxy cluster—called PSZ2 G181. In a study published in The Astrophysical Journal in April, researchers analyzed ...

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new ...

This gem of a film manages to draw together our questions about the universe and ourselves into one single adventure story ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered that a galaxy cluster is wrapped in an envelope of ...

Astronomers have discovered the largest known cloud of energetic particles surrounding a galaxy cluster—spanning nearly 20 ...

It’s not every day we get to see a visual of the entire Sculptor Galaxy, located approximately 10-11 million light-years from Earth, in all its kaleidoscopic splendour.

Researchers estimate that MoM z14 was created 280 million years after the Big Bang, 10 million years earlier than the ...

Those galaxies can be as small as a dwarf galaxy with up to only a few billion stars ... The Milky Way got its name because from our perspective on Earth, it appears as a faint band of light ...

While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year ... Those galaxies can be as small as a dwarf galaxy with up to only a few billion stars, or as large as Andromeda ...