If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

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

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Razor-thin chain of 14 galaxies may be the biggest spinning structure yet ...

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

Where is the center of the universe? Learn why researchers say the rules may not apply to the center of the universe.

This new Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an astounding number of galaxies. The objects in this frame span an incredible range of distances, from stars ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...