"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Learn how ALMA gives astrophysics a front row seat to dynamic forces that shape the galaxy, called space tornadoes.

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered the Firefly Sparkle galaxy, a young cosmic entity that may resemble the Milky ...

In the turbulent heart of the Milky Way, near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, astronomers have uncovered a ...

University of Arizona researchers are among a group of scientists who hope to discover what happened immediately after the Big Bang, when the universe expanded in a fraction of a ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping millions of celestial objects to better understand dark energy—the ...