In a groundbreaking study published in The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers have discovered high-velocity gas clouds near ...

The Milky Way in which we live has 200 billion stars, which puts it about midway on the scale between the very largest galaxies and smaller types, like dwarf galaxies.

A radio galaxy is a type of galaxy with giant regions of radio emissions that reach far beyond its visible structure. We explore them in more detail here.

Astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy that is a "cosmic fossil" which has remained "frozen in time" for billions of ...

This slowly transforming galaxy, created by a collision, is located 500 million light-years away. The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of a mysterious and rare cosmic treat ...

A new satellite galaxy discovered orbiting the Milky Way is either an incredibly ancient, soon-to-fragment clump of stars or the most dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy ever found.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of a mysterious and rare cosmic treat called the Carthweel galaxy. This slowly transforming galaxy, created by a collision, is located ...

Astrophysicists have been exploring the mystery of UFOs—no, not the "little green men" ones, but a strange type of large galaxy dubbed "Ultra-red Flattened Objects.". First discovered by ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has peered through cosmic dust to reveal new details and a stunning image of a rare type of galaxy. The space observatory's latest image shows the Cartwheel galaxy ...