This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the picturesque spiral galaxy NGC 4941, which lies about 67 million light ...

"SPT2349-56 is a system so extraordinary that we may have caught one of the most massive clusters under formation at a very ...

"We discovered a galaxy which formed 15 billion times the mass of the sun in stars and then stopped forming stars before the ...

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe ...

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This ...

Learn how through a process known as molecular hydrogen cooling, stars may be able to form in dark matter halos under 10 million solar masses.

These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.

"A supercomputer simulation shows many galaxies merging over time. The parts of galaxies we can see are glowing stars forming from gas in their central parts. Visualizations like these inform ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At the heart of our galaxy, in the turbulent region surrounding the ...

The universe is vast and mysterious, with over 85% of its mass composed of an invisible substance known as dark matter. Unlike ordinary matter, dark matter does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, ...

A new theory challenges the standard model of cosmology, arguing that dark matter and dark energy are not the forces behind ...