While scientists discovered the Cosmic Vine using the James Webb Space Telescope, they have yet to find a string of galaxies ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand a mysterious invisible substance that helps hold the universe together. The ordinary matter all around us — stars, planets ...

Spectacular scenes show two galaxies having a ‘cosmic joust’. Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent space collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense radiation. Their ...

A new study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, finally changes that. Using data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), researchers built a three-dimensional map of ...

Astronomers have uncovered a hidden cosmic web of galaxies and gas by mapping hydrogen light from the early universe.

How fast can a galaxy build ordered magnetic fields spanning thousands of light-years? Existing theories say several billion ...

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University ...

A large research team, led by Jorge K. Zavala, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has provided a snapshot of the early universe. They discovered specific ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. How do galaxies form? For decades, that's been a mystery, ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.