This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a glittering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 (Mrk 178). The galaxy ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

A new study, appearing in The Astrophysical Journal and based on observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...

Hubble has turned its sharp gaze on a compact, intensely blue dwarf galaxy about 13 million light years away, revealing a ...

Normal matter – which makes up everything we see and touch – isn’t the only type of matter present in the universe.

Astronomers usually detect black holes by looking for X-rays. When gas and dust fall toward a black hole, they heat up and ...

Learn to decode James Webb photos with this JWST image guide, offering clear space image explanation and beginner-friendly insights into stunning infrared telescope images.

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

Virgil is the reddest Little Red Dot discovered so far, and its hidden black hole may offer a clue to the fate of this ...

Scientists have discovered a massive, rotating galactic filament stretching about 50 million light-years across, containing roughly 300 galaxies that are all spinning ...

New Chandra X-ray study finds many dwarf galaxies may not host central massive black holes, challenging long-held assumptions about galaxy formation and black hole origins ...