Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

A distant galaxy 12 billion light-years away shows signs of being a jellyfish galaxy, with trailing streams of gas caused by ...

When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are the same. Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare instance of a interstellar comet speeding through the solar system. The 3I/ATLAS was first ...

In the predawn hours of July 1, 2025, a faint streak of light caught the attention of astronomers peering through data from a ...

NASA has since confirmed the object is an interstellar comet called 3I/ATLAS – and it is only the third interstellar object ...

Galaxies have an overall internal motion called disk velocity. It’s how gas, dust, and stars move around the galactic center.

Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through the solar system — only the ...