So-called ring galaxies are extremely rare in the Universe, and they are thought to be the result of a very specific set of circumstances. Although space is mostly empty, galaxies are drawn together ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

There are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above ...

In a study that was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, astronomers used Hubble to find eight observable ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

Scientists have discovered an enormous radio galaxy 32 times the size of the Milky Way. They nicknamed it "Inkathazo," or ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...