"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

The European Space Agency said that the black hole inside the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 has the mass of 30 million suns.

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

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

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will study thousands of cosmic voids, mapping galaxy distributions to investigate dark matter, dark energy and the universe’s large-scale structure through precise ...

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 ...

How can a galaxy display perfectly defined spiral arms when the Universe had only a little over 10% of its current age? This ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Thousands of galaxies in various shapes and sizes are captured in this new image from the James ...

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.