In a groundbreaking study published in The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers have discovered high-velocity gas clouds near ...

Unusually fast-moving gas clouds near a nearby galaxy suggest they may have come from outside the galaxy. Scientists have ...

When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are the same. Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...

Galaxies have an overall internal motion called disk velocity. It’s how gas, dust, and stars move around the galactic center.

A new result from the molecular gas survey in the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy M83 using the Atacama Large ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

A distant galaxy 12 billion light-years away shows signs of being a jellyfish galaxy, with trailing streams of gas caused by ...

The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

A surprising new look at the Milky Way has scientists rethinking everything we thought we knew about our home galaxy. Thanks ...

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 ...