At least some evidence suggests that NGC 2775 developed its odd shape after merging with other galaxies eons ago. While not ...

In its first year of full operations, the Euclid space telescope has quietly built one of the most ambitious maps of the ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed ...

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More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter ...

Galaxies are clouds of stars that range in both size and composition. Some contain hundreds of millions of stars while the largest galaxies can contain trillions of stars. And while it’s not entirely ...

Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that ...

While nearly all massive galaxies possess central black holes, the presence of such black holes in dwarf galaxies remains an open question, with previous estimates identifying them in only 0.5% of ...

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Dive into the dazzling depths of the universe with this galaxy-themed trivia quiz that spans cosmic facts, mysterious ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...