A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

Learn how the James Webb Space Telescope used infrared spectroscopy to uncover dense organic molecules in one of the ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

At approximately 100,000 light years in diameter, the Milky Way’s vastness and the broader, ever-changing dynamics of the cosmos defy any attempt to fully understand our home galaxy and its history.

The latest data release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) includes observations revealing the internal structure and composition of nearly 5,000 nearby galaxies observed during the first three ...

See amazing views of the M74, NGC 7496, IC 5332, NGC 1365, and NGC 1433 galaxies captured using the James Webb Space Telescope.The Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby Galaxies (PHANGS) ...

The new study, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, focused on the Hubble Legacy Archive and a dataset built from it: 99.6 ...

A new photograph shared by NASA offers a peek at the breathtaking views seen from the International Space Station (ISS). The image shows off Earth's colorful airglow as well as two nearby galaxies, ...

A group of galaxies in our cosmic backyard has given astronomers clues about how stars form. A thorough survey using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed around 14 million stars in 69 ...