No need for hyperdrive: Scientists have released an “expansion pack” for a virtual tour of the universe that you can enjoy from the comfort of your own computer. The latest version of the publicly ...

The big galaxy in the foreground is named LEDA 2046648, and is seen just over a billion years back in time, while most of the others lie even farther away, and hence are seen even further back in time ...

As 2026 unfolds, the space sector is no longer just about planning future missions; it's about the immediate, mind-bending revelations pouring in from our most advanced instruments. The James Webb ...

An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky Way—already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image shows a small section of NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's total view of the Virgo cluster of galaxies, including two ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered multiple evolutionary paths for the universe's most massive galaxies. Observations of ultramassive galaxies, each containing more than 100 billion ...

Since humanity first gazed up at the night sky, we’ve been driven by an insatiable curiosity to understand what lies beyond our pale blue dot. The past six decades of space exploration have delivered ...

"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black holes at their centers are growing." When you purchase through links on our ...

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, galaxies cluster through gravitational interactions, forming the cosmic web ...

The beauty of space: Throughout the centuries, various catalogs of galaxies and other cosmic objects have been published. Now, thanks to digital technology, we have a new publicly accessible archive ...

An image obtained from observations of large-scale structure of the universe. The numerous objects shown in yellow to red all represent galaxies hundreds of millions of light years away from Earth.

To dark matter and dark energy, add dark galaxies — collections of stars so sparse and faint that they are all but invisible. An artist’s depiction of hydrogen gas observed in the galaxy J0613+52, ...