Astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new image of two interacting galaxies collectively...
According to the findings of a study published online in the Astrophysical Journal, a dwarf galaxy named Segue 2 is the least massive galaxy in the known...
According to an international team of astronomers working with ESA’s Herschel Space Telescope, two gas-rich, actively star-forming galaxies that collided...
U.S. astrophysicists report computer simulations that seem to resolve long-standing questions about the origin and life history of spiral arms in disk...
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a stunning new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1068, also known as Messier 77.
The spiral...
Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an array of 66 radio telescopes located in the dry and cloudless Atacama Desert...
An international team of astronomers suggests a supernova remnant, called W49B, contains the youngest black hole formed in our Milky Way Galaxy.
This image...
An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new view of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106...
Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have captured two new views of the Andromeda Galaxy.
This new image from the Herschel Space Observatory...
An international team of astronomers led by Dr Sebastien Muller of the Chalmers University of Technology has made the most precise measurement ever of...
An international team of astronomers led by Dr Alyssa Goodman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has identified a bone-like filament in...
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University have discovered a possible dwarf protogalaxy, and another dwarf galaxy, in the constellation Ursa Major.
Sloan...
An international team of astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 and the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has...
A team of astronomers, led by Dr Mischa Schirmer of the Gemini Observatory, using observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Gemini South...
Astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a black hole that could shake the foundations of current models of galaxy evolution.
This Hubble image...