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Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a spectacular galaxy crashArp 107 hosts a special spiraling 'Seyfert' galaxy connected to a smaller galaxy by a 'bridge' of dust and gas.
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James Webb telescope spots thousands of Milky Way lookalikes that 'shouldn't exist' swarming across the early universeThousands of disk galaxies like our own Milky Way were spotted in the early universe, where they shouldn't exist.
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An ancient, ravenous black hole has been hiding an 11-billion-year-old galaxy in its glareA team of astronomers has used a tricky technique to study an ancient galaxy previously lost in the glare of a blazing quasar.
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'Grand cosmic fireworks': See the stunning winners of the 2023 astronomy photo of the year contestThe winning images from the Royal Observatory Greenwich's 15th annual astrophotography contest will blow you away.
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Our entire galaxy is warping, and a gigantic blob of dark matter could be to blameAn invisible halo of misaligned dark matter could explain the warps at the Milky Way's edges.
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How far apart are stars?Scientists have calculated the average distance between stars, but there's much more to star distribution than meets the eye.
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Rare polar ring galaxy is 'one of the most spectacular' astronomers have ever seenAstronomers discovered an ultra-rare spiral galaxy with a ring of hydrogen swirling around its poles.
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Enormous structure discovered near doomed galaxy group is the longest galactic 'tail' ever seenThe 1.5-million-light-year-long gas trail was caused by a group of galaxies moving 3 million miles per hour
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers oldest organic molecules in the known universe, 12 billion light-years from EarthAstronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered evidence of complex organic molecules in a galaxy 12.3 billion light-years away — the furthest and oldest ever detected.
