A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, which gave birth to the universe some 13.8 ...

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.

Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...

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

NASA released exciting information on Thursday regarding the discovery of "monster stars" and "spiral galaxies." Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers were able to identify nine "monster stars ...

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NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft captured dark streaks produced by geysers visible on the icy surface of Triton's south polar ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When will the Milky Way collide with the Andromeda Galaxy?

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is perched on a mountain in northern Chile in the foothills of the Andes – a location astronomers say is ideal for observing the skies. The observatory’s main objective ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...