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The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

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New research reveals how supermassive black holes halt star formation, shedding light on galaxy evolution in the early ...

From celestial fireworks caused by exploding stars to mesmerizing mosaics of distant nebulae, check out these 7 stunning ...

This spiral galaxy IC 2163 by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope’s ultraviolet- and visible-light view appears white at the center ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, complex observatory that studies the universe in infrared light, which is ...

“The discovery meant that these galaxies [had to be] older than the age of the universe, which is physically impossible,” ...

Everything we thought we knew about galaxy formation was thrown into question in the 1990s after astronomers discovered two distant, massive galaxies ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud, or LMC and SMC, are two satellite galaxies of the Milky Way galaxy ... you might even be able to see some blueish stars in its spiral arms. The ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as ...

New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.