It's been named Cloud-9, and it's a mysterious object about 14.3 million light-years away, near the spiral galaxy M94, which ...

Named Y1, the galaxy is bustling with a speedy star formation system unlike any other observed before.

Astronomers have finally confirmed the existence of RELHICs—a long-theorized class of dark, starless clouds from the early ...

Astronomers think they may have identified a new class of astronomical object — something that looks like a galaxy in every ...

Astronomers using Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a new type of cosmic object that is believed to be a “failed ...

A strange, starless object is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies are born. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA ...

Measuring the energy of hot gas within a remote group of galaxies reinforces the importance of giant black holes in forming ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, a team of researchers has identified a new astronomical object named Cloud-9, which may significantly enhance our understanding of galaxy formation and the early ...

Professor Woong-bae Zee of the College of Liberal Studies at Sejong University has revealed that a galaxy does not possess only a single evolutionary pathway; instead, depending on the nature of its ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

Gas cloud collisions during galaxy mergers compress interstellar material, triggering new star formation, as observed in interacting systems studied by NASA and reported by Universe Today.

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...