Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

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Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

The galaxy, located in the constellation Leo, is about the same size as a star cluster within the Milky Way and is about the ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...

Crucial to all life on Earth, the 15th element of phosphorus remains a real puzzle for astronomers. Specialized space ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...