Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

The filament is a part of the vast cosmic web composed primarily of dark matter and interspersed with lighter layers of ...

Where is the center of the universe? Learn why researchers say the rules may not apply to the center of the universe.

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

This spinning branch of the cosmic web binds 14 galaxies together. Credit: Lyla Jung. In a recently published study, ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...