Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

And if the discovery holds up, it could help plug one of ... type of galaxy made mostly of dark matter, with little or no visible stars. This isn’t the first time scientists have suspected ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

When astronomers first spotted Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1, it caused a little excitement. The group of stars at the edge of the ...

"No existing galaxy formation model within our standard cosmological paradigm can currently explain how this galaxy came to be." ...

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...

On cosmic timescales, galaxies crash or barely miss one ... stars to pile up and form the distinct rings over millions of years. The Bullseye Galaxy will continue to evolve and, as a result, will ...