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.

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

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

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

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...

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

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

Black holes, born from dying stars, are cosmic giants that grow by consuming matter and merging with others. While invisible ...

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