The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—nearly as massive ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

The larger elliptical galaxy is pulling material from a smaller neighboring galaxy, distorting its spiral arms. In turn, the ...

Space is full of amazing and rare facts that can totally blow your mind! For instance, did you know that there's a huge storm on Jupiter that's been raging for over 300 years? And that some stars are ...

Peering through telescopes, watching model meteors destroy model planets and playing dozens of informative games, ...

Since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified early galaxies that shine unexpectedly brightly, suggesting ...

Each year, the galaxies produce the equivalent of two dozen new stars that are the size of the Sun. Our Milky Way galaxy only forms the equivalent of two or three new Sun-like stars per year. Both ...

The lower “eyelid” of the smaller IC 2163 is filled with new star formations. Stars are hot balls of gas and the Milky Way galaxy contains more than 100 billion of the up to one septillion stars the ...

In these articles, Cass commits three fundamental errors: 1) a misapplication of what economists call “externalities,” 2) falling victim to the water-diamond paradox, and 3) a disregard of ...

V404 Cygni's black hole feeds on a star, while another star maintains its The system includes a black hole and two companion stars. V404 Cygni challenges current black hole formation theories.

NGC 602 is a roughly 3 million-year-old star-forming cluster on the outskirts of the SMC, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way that contains roughly 3 billion stars. (Our galaxy, in comparison ...