NASA has released a detailed view of Centaurus A, one of the closest active galaxies to Earth, showing a complex environment ...

NASA Chandra X-ray telescope data from galaxy cluster Abell 2146 showed a "shockwave that stretches for some 1.6 million ...

The Milky Way galaxy's disk of stars may once have flipped onto its side. If it did, the Sun turned with it, along with the rest of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have identified a likely evolutionary path linking dusty star-forming galaxies to massive quiescent galaxies that ...

Looking ahead: Future Euclid observations will enable scientists to watch how galaxy collisions spark bursts of star formation, fuel shrouded black holes, and unleash energetic feedback. According to ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been revealed by a new study. The research, published in Monthly Notices of the ...

A galactic collision ignited stellar fireworks in the Milky Way A study rewrites the history of the Milky Way and reveals how galaxy collisions can destroy stellar discs Peer-Reviewed Publication ...

Astronomers have discovered a third galaxy without dark matter in a strange string of a dozen dwarf galaxies. A violent collision is likely to blame.

Astronomers at Texas A&M University have discovered a rare, tightly packed collision of galaxies in the early universe, suggesting that galaxies were interacting and shaping their surroundings far ...

A new study suggests that some of the Universe’s earliest giant galaxies may have lived dramatic lives. They began as dusty stellar factories, producing hundreds of stars each year, before suddenly ...