New NASA-backed research using the Chandra X-ray Observatory suggests many small galaxies may lack supermassive black holes, ...

A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

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

If not in visible stars and galaxies, the most likely hiding place for the matter is in the dark space between galaxies.

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

Two barred spiral galaxies, known as NGC 7733 and NGC 7734, are in the process of merging. The lower galaxy has a dusty knot atop its upper arm, which marks a third ...

It got called the crisis in cosmology. But now astronomers can explain some surprising recent discoveries. Artist illustration of a black hole surrounded by extremely thick clouds of gas and dust.

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

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

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

The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded, thanks to a deep-sky census assembled from surveys taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories. Astronomers came to the surprising ...