Stephan's Quintet serves as an ideal laboratory for understanding the complex and often violent relationships between galaxies. The collision offers astronomers a rare opportunity to study how ...

Explore the James Webb Space Telescope's incredible discovery: a cosmic alignment revealing the teenage years of our Milky ...

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

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

The early universe’s profusion of multi-black hole systems is one such surprise. The majority of galaxies, including our own Milky Way, have black holes in their core. It is typically a sign that two ...

It seems that we will never understand the magnitude of the universe in its demonstrated infinity. Neither our generation nor ...

"If two galaxies actually collide with each other the stars basically pass right between each other, and the chance of two stars directly hitting each other is really, really small," said van der ...

A giant galaxy called LEDA 1313424, dubbed the “Bullseye,” which has nine rings filled with stars has been discovered by the ...

The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

In the image, the panel illustrates the complexity of dynamical evolution in a typical collision between two equal-mass disk galaxies. The simulation follows dark matter, stars, gas, and ...