The object in question is a cosmic filament, a thread-like chain of gas that is about 5.5 million light-years in length and ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

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

The galaxy – seen as it appeared when the Universe was just 1.5 billion years old – shows a mature, organised structure at a time when most early galaxies were believed to be irregular and chaotic, ...

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

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

Indian astronomers have identified a surprisingly mature, Milky Way-like galaxy from the universe’s early era. Named ...

Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

We often think of galaxies either as individual “island universes” or as a member of a galaxy cluster. But there is another category of association: galaxy groups. Many galaxies — perhaps most in the ...

This week’s naked-eye object is Regulus (Alpha [α] Leonis), Leo the Lion’s brightest star. It’s easy to find in February low in the east after sunset. But a closer look will show you that Regulus is ...