When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An example of a jellyfish galaxy with blue "tentacles" below it where stars are forming.

Being a relatively close neighbor to the Milky Way at 32 million light-years away, M74, otherwise known as the Phantom Galaxy, is a popular target for astronomers. Using the new powerful Webb Space ...

With its sharp observation and wide-field view, Euclid has already found more than 1.2 million large galaxies and obtained details of their morphology.

When this shock reaches the surface, it releases an enormous burst of energy. The star brightens dramatically, becoming visible as a supernova. For a short period, astronomers can study the initial ...

Astronomers might just have peered back to the dawn of starlight-not in a time machine, but through a cosmic magnifying glass ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other. An elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy appear as one celestial body as a ...

What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how you look at it. The James Webb Space Telescope has helped two international ...

First image from Vera C. Rubin telescope reveals a previously unnoticed feature of galaxy M61 that may explain its mysterious ...

Just in time for the 4th of July, the space telescope captures celestial show. — -- The Hubble Space Telescope captured a celestial fireworks show in a miniature galaxy, coming just in time for ...

A galaxy in a practically empty area of the universe seems to be impossibly forming stars, and new observations have only deepened the puzzle ...

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years ...