Surveying nearby galaxies in the process of merging with other galaxies, astronomers have identified massive, dense star ...

A supermassive black hole in the early Universe has been spotted blasting out powerful jets of plasma that are at least twice ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The ...

Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as ...

Astronomers capture the universe’s brightest era, revealing when galaxies like the Milky Way first formed and began to shine.

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the ...

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this ...

A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has identified four previously unknown primordial open cluster (OC) groups in ...

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

There is only a 50 percent chance of this happening even in the next 10 billion years, according to study by UK and ...

A recent study reveals four previously unknown primordial open cluster groups in the Milky Way, challenging traditional ...

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about ...