The heart of our Galaxy displays a paradox that intrigues astronomers. While this region concentrates immense quantities of ...

A team of astronomers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has released new data from an ...

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May's latest book explores the history, mystery and evolution of galaxies in a way never tried ...

Astronomers found a rapidly growing supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy millions of light-years away using the ...

In a groundbreaking development in the field of astronomy, scientists may have captured the first direct image of dark matter, nearly 100 years after it was first theorized. This invisible yet ...

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...

Dive into the dazzling depths of the universe with this galaxy-themed trivia quiz that spans cosmic facts, mysterious ...

Galaxy dynamics are confronted with one of the deepest problems of modern physics: the dark matter problem. The motions of stars and gas observed exceed what can be explained by the mass visible in ...

We often think of galaxies either as individual “island universes” or as a member of a galaxy cluster. But there is another category of association: galaxy groups. Many galaxies — perhaps most in the ...

Spring has sprung — and for lovers of deep-sky objects, that means it’s galaxy season. This is a time of the year when that pesky, band of glowing stars and shadowy dust that we call the Milky Way is ...

Despite appearing "dead"—i.e., forming no new stars—some red galaxies may secretly be alive, quietly birthing small stars under our noses. This is the conclusion of astronomy professor Charles ...