The impending merger of the two galaxies hints at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and ...

Astronomers have long predicted that a collision between our galaxy and nearby Andromeda could be inevitable, but new ...

Strange light anomalies are captivating astronomers and scientists across the globe as they spread across multiple galaxies.

Last night, while scrolling through astronomy news, I was stunned by a new image from the Webb Telescope — can you believe it ...

Pictures are the key to new insights in the field of astrophysics. Such images include simulations of cosmic events, which ...

An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

Astronomers have studied the merger of galaxies NGC 5713 and NGC 5719 to understand the future collision between the Milky ...

An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers ...

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their colleagues said in a study soon to be published in the Astrophysical Journal ...

“While such collisions are rare events, similarly extreme gas densities are thought to have been quite common at early cosmic epochs, when galaxies began forming,” he added. Van Dokkum and his ...

Astronomers have used a new method to weigh the ultramassive black hole. They hope this will help them better understand how ...