GREENBELT, Md. – An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Swift satellite and the Japanese/U.S. Suzaku X-ray observatory has discovered a new class of active galactic nuclei (AGN). By now, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of scientists at the University of Missouri has identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe using ...

One of the most interesting galaxies of the study, dubbed 41028 (the green oval at center), has an estimated stellar mass of just 2 million Suns — comparable to the masses of the largest star clusters ...

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Two different types of galaxies are merging in a phenomenon scientists are calling a "cosmic guitar." An elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy are reportedly being drawn together by gravity in a rare ...

An international team of scientists led by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the ...

The first photos of the James Webb Space Telescope were published two years ago. To celebrate the milestone, NASA released new photos of two galaxies affectionally called "The Penguin and the Egg" for ...

Two far-away galaxies have been described as “blood-soaked eyes” by NASA after the Hubble and James Webb Space telescopes captured an intriguing video of the two colliding galaxies. NASA says the ...

Galaxies “waste” large amounts of heavy elements generated by star formation by ejecting them up to a million light years away into their surrounding halos and deep space, according to a new study led ...

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Edwin Hubble, born November 20, 1889, made seminal observations in 1923 of the Andromeda Galaxy and a Cepheid variable, which significantly broadened the understanding of other galaxies and the ...

Astronomers using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have identified dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic makeover that transformed the early universe into the one ...