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.

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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 ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Two barred spiral galaxies, known as NGC 7733 and NGC 7734, are in the process of merging. The lower galaxy has a dusty knot atop its upper arm, which marks a third galactic companion. | Credit: ...

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