A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

The JWST has spotted Alaknanda, a massive, well-formed grand-design spiral galaxy that existed just 1.5 billion years after ...

James Webb Space Telescope has delivered stunning views of the "gravitationally distorted realms" of the El Gordo galaxy ...

Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked ...

Astronomers located hyperactive fast radio bursts to a faint dwarf galaxy orbiting a larger companion 2 billion light-years ...

Astronomers have uncovered more than 400 pairs of star clusters in our Milky Way—cosmic siblings that were born together or ...

Stars usually form in clusters, which can also form in pairs or groups. Binary clusters (BCs) are defined as pairs of open ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory view of galaxy group NGC 4839 has revealed that it is "plunging into the Coma galaxy cluster ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...

Constellation Perseus culminates high upon the north-south meridian around 10 p.m. Dec. 25, with its brightest star Alpha ...

At least some evidence suggests that NGC 2775 developed its odd shape after merging with other galaxies eons ago. While not ...

For decades, scientists have only inferred dark matter’s existence through its gravitational pull on galaxies, but may now ...