An international team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has shed light on a ...

Astronomers have shed light on a decades-long debate about why galaxies rotate faster than expected, and whether this ...

While the findings do not reveal what dark matter is made of, they do narrow the space for alternative explanations. Future observations of even fainter and more distant galaxies will help to hone-in ...

NGC 7496, a dusty barred spiral galaxy located 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus, harbors a ravenous supermassive black hole at its core.

A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a glowing ring of star formation in the heart of NGC 6951, a ...

Just in time for Hallowe'en in 2024, Hubble and JWST captured an image of two interacting spiral galaxies — IC 2163 and NGC ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of ...

A new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile has recently captured its ...

A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...

Astronomers have discovered that a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Circinus galaxy is feeding through two ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured 19 spiral galaxies "face-on" in near- and mid-infrared. The images "show stars, ...