ASTRONOMERS have identified 53 previously unknown quasars powered by supermassive black holes whose jets hurl matter at ...

Indian scientists have discovered a 13.8-billion-years-old galaxy that resembles the Milky Way. The galaxy has been named ...

The blank horizontal bar is the galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

Astronomers have identified a remarkable population of distant quasars whose radio jets balloon to scales that make our own ...

“Observing the Galaxy is like standing in the middle of a brightly lit city at night. If you look toward the outskirts, the ...

The galaxy – seen as it appeared when the Universe was just 1.5 billion years old – shows a mature, organised structure at a time when most early galaxies were believed to be irregular and chaotic, ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.