What makes red geysers stand out is that they show faint, galaxy-scale outflows of ionized gas, stretching tens of thousands ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

Webb reveals a bridge of stars linking two nearby dwarf galaxies, offering a look at how gravity reshapes galaxies and sparks ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This barred spiral galaxy NGC 2283 exhibits a bright central bar of stars encircled by loosely ...

Gas cloud collisions during galaxy mergers compress interstellar material, triggering new star formation, as observed in interacting systems studied by NASA and reported by Universe Today.

An international team of astronomers has uncovered multiple evolutionary paths for the universe's most massive galaxies. Observations of ultramassive galaxies, each containing more than 100 billion ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found new ...

A distant galaxy has been caught in the act of shutting down. The galaxy, called CQ 4479, is still forming plenty of new stars. But it also has an actively feeding supermassive black hole at its ...

Black holes are the closest things we have left to mythological monsters — the “Here be dragons” warning of our cosmological maps. The supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies deserve ...