Astronomers have made a surprising discovery that challenges current theories of galaxy formation. A colossal disk-shaped ...

Astronomers have uncovered a colossal disk galaxy in the early universe, a structure so large and well-formed that it ...

A mysterious phenomenon at the center of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark matter. Dark matter, the ...

Scientists observing the Centaurus galaxy cluster made an exciting breakthrough by discovering powerful streams of hot gas ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...

and it also interacts with its buddy dwarf galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud. Those interactions shake up the stars and gas and make it hard to locate the center. Now, though, astronomers have a ...

Their formation and activity are thought to be heavily influenced by interactions with larger galaxies. One of the great places to look for dwarf galaxies is the halo of the Andromeda galaxy (also ...