You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success,” 19th-century Baptist preacher Russell Conwell is said to have ...

In traditional understanding, massive black holes are often found 'occupying' the centers of galaxies. However, researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope observed 19 nearby face-on spiral galaxies in near- and mid-infrared light as part of its contributions to the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS ...

“Living fossil” galaxies found nearby Massive yet compact galaxies discovered relatively near the Milky Way belong to a type believed extinct since the early history of the universe.

How stars form in galaxies remains a major open question in astrophysics. A new study sheds new light on this topic with the help of a data-driven re-analysis of observational measurements. The ...

Several nearby galaxies seem nearly identical to some of the remotest galaxies known, offering a glimpse of the era when galaxies first formed.

Back to Article List Mysterious stars detected in nearby galaxies Researchers suspect the stars are precursors to neutron star mergers and hydrogen-poor supernovae.

These stunning new images of nearby galaxies will blow you away Hubble combines with ground-based telescopes to produce incredible snaps of "cosmic fireworks." ...

Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

Astronomers have found 47 galaxies with relatively few stars, something not predicted by any galaxy formation theories.

A NASA astronomer takes us through the rest: This plot shows nearly 50,000 galaxies in the nearby universe detected by the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) in infrared light.