A high-speed crash between two dwarf galaxies might explain a unique feature in space – and provide useful information on ...

There are galaxies shaped like jellyfish, galaxies that consume other galaxies, and galaxies that seem to lack the dark matter that pervades the rest of the universe. Here are the strangest ...

The head-on collision between the two galaxies fueled a star-forming frenzy, creating “the oddball triangle of newly minted stars,” according to NASA.

Studying the merging Antennae Galaxies provides astronomers a preview of the Milky Way's eventual fate as it will collided with the nearby Andromeda Galaxy in 5 billion years.

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

In the vast expanse of the universe, the Milky Way Galaxy holds a special place in our hearts. It is our home, and after studying it for decades from our cosmic residence nestled within one of its ...

The researchers are now looking for more of these weird galaxies to learn more about how stars were forming in the first 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

Galaxies, on the whole, are very pretty. I find that interesting, actually; we didn’t evolve to see galaxies with our naked eyes, and they exert no selective pressure on us to breed, so when we ...

A cigar-shaped "prolate" galaxy is formed by the collision of two large galaxies at a specific angle.

University of Arizona astrophysicist Erika Hamden takes readers on a romp through a "Weird Universe" in her debut popular ...

Big black holes in little galaxies, rogue black holes and other behemoths could offer clues to cosmic evolution.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a weird galaxy that originated just a billion years after the Big Bang.