A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

Astronomers have discovered seven distant galaxies aligned with a galaxy cluster ... of galaxies ever seen. This arrangement of warped and stretched galaxies contains the largest "Einstein ...

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" galaxy, 6.5 billion light-years from Earth. It is the largest group of ...

The telescope's namesake, American astronomer Edwin Hubble (1889 - 1953), first discovered that this spiral nebula existed miles outside of our own Milky Way galaxy – 2.5 million light years to ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...