A new study suggests that some of the Universe’s earliest giant galaxies may have lived dramatic lives. They began as dusty ...

For more than a decade, the collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies has been treated as a settled fact of ...

Unusual stellar remnants suggest the Milky Way might have eaten a galaxy called Loki billions of years ago, according to new ...

The James Webb telescope peered into an ancient spot of light, and found it to be the most metal-poor galaxy in the early universe.

After searching for 50 years, astronomers have finally discovered evidence of powerful winds blowing from Sagittarius A* (Sgr ...

While astronomers have taken about two dozen zoomed-in images of stars in our galaxy, unveiling their properties, countless other stars dwell within other galaxies, so far away that observing even one ...

Astronomers have discovered a tiny, ghostly galaxy in a remote corner of the universe, likely a cosmic castaway flung from its original galactic group billions of years ago and left to wander in ...

As part of the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro2020), the Panel on Galaxies will identify and articulate the scientific themes that will define the frontier in galaxy research in ...