A black hole may be stirring a "pot" of gas containing a neighboring galaxy in the early universe, according to a new study ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured one of the clearest views yet of how an early supermassive black hole may grow within a network of young galaxies. The compact active ...

Astronomers found the most distant nuclear disc ever seen, showing galaxies became organized far earlier in the Universe than ...

A huge missing chunk of our universe has been found at last, but I’m not talking about dark matter. For decades, there’s been ...

For decades, astronomers have cast galaxy mergers as the universe's ultimate relationship drama: two galaxies collide, chaos ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A developing galaxy cluster dating to about 1 billion years after the Big Bang is shown in this handout image released on January ...

Stars and galaxies make up much of the universe’s ordinary, observable matter. But for decades, scientists have wrestled with ...

The history of how stars and galaxies came to be and evolved into the present day remains among the most challenging astrophysical questions to solve yet, but new research brings us closer to ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite galaxies—up to 100 more than we currently know. These elusive "orphan" galaxies have ...

This early galaxy hosts as much as 30% of the oxygen of a fully developed, modern-day one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...