Research shows that galaxies form inside gigantic haloes of dark matter, the elusive substance that doesn't interact with ...

For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But three new studies raise ...

On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

Astronomers have long used the Milky Way as a benchmark for studying galaxy formation and evolution, assuming that its ...

The formation of galaxies in the universe should follow a fairly simple path. It starts with small galaxies, which then grow ...

Webb's ability to see through hazy obstacles is demonstrated here with the Sombrero, aka Messier 104, a nearly edge-on spiral ...

In a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a galaxy named for its resemblance to a broad-brimmed Mexican hat appears more like an archery target. In Webb’s mid-infrared view of the ...

These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our Milky Way ... universe” . Expansion of the Universe Besides estimating the distance to a ...

Hubble captures the aftermath of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s dramatic encounter with the Milky Way, revealing the loss of ...

NGC 6355 has been imaged using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The globular cluster of stars lies 50,000 light-years away.