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

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Hubble’s high-resolution imagery allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm ...

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

Approximately 13.8 billion years ago, the universe originated from a singularity, swiftly expanding and cooling to create the ...

LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image ...