In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...
The Chandra X-ray Observatory captured imagery of a galaxy that "appears to have pulled in and assimilated all of its former ...
It is not surprising that there are regions that are more densely populated by galaxies, and regions that are less populated.
In a significant astronomical discovery, researchers found three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, offering new insights into the ...
Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.