Galactic mergers play a key role in the evolution of the universe, driving the growth of larger galaxies and the overall ...

NASA released six stunning images from the Hubble Telescope showcasing interacting galaxies, including the chaotic beauty of ...

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

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a record-smashing galaxy wrapped in 9 rings of stars — along with ...

The research team said these rings likely formed when a smaller galaxy shot through the heart of the Bullseye galaxy roughly ...

G alaxy LEDA 1313424 is a beauty. It is 2.5 times the size of the Milky Way and has something no other galaxy has: A series ...

A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.

So-called ring galaxies are extremely rare in the Universe, and they are thought to be the result of a very specific set of circumstances. Although space is mostly empty, galaxies are drawn together ...

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

Astronomers have discovered a unique collisional ring galaxy, nicknamed the "Bullseye," that features nine rings, the most ...

In a study published today by The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a research team led by Yale University’s Imad Pasha ...

The eight ripples seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in this cosmic scene marks the most ever seen in any galaxy, and data ...