Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual "ingredients," raising ...

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

Astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object: a gas-rich cloud about 14 million light-years away from our planet ...

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

Astronomers have observed a spiral galaxy spraying vast jets of superheated gas like a cosmic sprinkler, revealing how ...

Astronomers report how a "death by a thousand blows" caused a galaxy in the early universe to stop forming stars, making it ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

Using the Subaru Telescope’s wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...

Galaxy clusters are formed by a dense packing of many galaxies, making them the most massive structures in the universe.