Astronomers have discovered a group of dwarf galaxies that are unusually aligned in a near-straight line, with most of them rotating in the same direction. These peculiar features challenge ...

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

This year has delivered some awe-inspiring imagery of space, from the James Webb Space Telescope’s stunning shots of faraway stars and galaxies to images of the skies taken from here on planet Earth ...

The best telescope unlocks the wonders of the universe ... a smaller telescope to provide a smaller field of view for larger galaxies and nebulas." ...

Galaxies are the building blocks of the universe. Clusters of galaxies, and clusters of clusters of galaxies, called superclusters, make up the structures in the geography of the universe. In this ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. How do galaxies form? For decades, that's been a mystery, but it may have finally been solved by a group of astronomers using ...

It's explored our own solar system, studied the atmospheres of distant planets in search of signs of life and probed the farthest depths to find the very first stars and galaxies formed in the ...

The arrangement may be as challenging as it is beautiful, potentially posing a problem for our best model of cosmic evolution. The observed dwarf galaxies sit relatively close to Earth at just ...