Scientists from the University of Southampton believe galaxies crashed together to create gigantic elliptical galaxies.

The James Webb telescope spent another year collecting instantly iconic space imagery. Here are some of our favorites.

The mid-infrared light image shows astronomical features that can’t be seen with visible light cameras or in previous ...

Millions and billions of stars which adorn our night sky often form in groups or clusters from the same nebulae. Gravity ...

Infrared light reveals the galaxy to be a docile place, rather than the shining, roiling 'Sombrero' seen in visible light.

NASA released its "Astronomy Picture of the Day"—actually a combo of two pictures, taken two decades apart. The first is a 20 ...

Vesto Slipher was not well known, but his groundbreaking observations helped uncover one of astronomy’s most fundamental ...

Astronomers have identified 56 unusual galaxies termed “UFO galaxies” due to their red, glowing, disc-like appearance.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured Hodge 301 which is a star cluster in the Tarantula Nebula, visible from Earth's Southern Hemisphere. The cluster and nebula lie about 168,000 light years away.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a surprising new view of a long-studied galactic neighbor, the Sombrero galaxy, ...

A side-by-side comparison of the photo with its predecessor from the Hubble telescope shows how clearer the newer telescope ...