The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

In the search for elusive particles called neutrinos, researchers are stringing thousands of detectors in the depths of the ...

In this series, we cover provocative questions in astronomy. This week: the mysterious extragalactic signals known as Fast ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Discovers a Cosmic Bullseye, Found to Be a Galaxy With Star-Filled Rings Astronomers observed a unique image of a galactic collision between galaxies which created a ...

The darkness of the outer Solar System enabled ... It was previously estimated by the Hubble Space Telescope that there were two trillion+ galaxies out there, mostly beyond its view, but these ...

Euclid space telescope sent some images back to Earth during an early testing phase. While reviewing the pictures, astronomer ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded icy objects" thousands of light years from Earth. Takashi Shimonishi, ...

“This detailed look at the resolved stars will help us to piece together the galaxy’s past merger and interaction history,” Williams adds. Hubble, however, has its limits—the space ...

“Astronomers invented dark matter to explain how you get from a very smooth early universe to big galaxies with lots of empty space between them that we see today,” said Dr. Stacy McGaugh, who is a ...