Astronomers have discovered powerful magnetic fields steering gas, dust, and star formation in a dramatic galaxy merger.

Astronomers at Texas A&M University have discovered a rare, tightly packed collision of galaxies in the early universe, suggesting that galaxies were interacting and shaping their surroundings far ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the researchers identified an ongoing merger event of at least ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's concept depicts the Milky Way galaxy and its spiral shape. Our solar system is located in one of the spiral arms. - ...

Galaxy merger is a crucial process in galactic evolution that has happened since the first galaxies came into being. Now JWST ...

(CNN) — A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912. But new ...

Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity ...

A strange line of dwarf galaxies may have been the result of a bullet-like cosmic collision. Michael Keim at Yale University and his colleagues used the Keck Observatory in Hawaii to study a unique ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral ...

Some galaxies in the early universe were absolute powerhouses, churning out stars at rates that would dwarf the Milky Way's ...