If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Razor-thin chain of 14 galaxies may be the biggest spinning structure yet ...

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

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May's latest book explores the history, mystery and evolution of galaxies in a way never tried before – through 3D photography that takes years to create.

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

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

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

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