no galaxy is safe. While humanity may not live to see it, such violent encounters could one day reshape our corner of the ...

Edwin Hubble's revelation in 1924 that the Andromeda Nebula was, in fact, an 'island universe,' was a pivotal moment in our ...

In a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a galaxy named for its resemblance to a broad-brimmed Mexican hat appears more like an archery target. In Webb’s mid-infrared view of the ...

The largest magnetic fields in the universe may have found themselves charged up when the first stars began to shine, ...

A new mid-infrared image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features the Sombrero galaxy, also known as Messier ...

Our planet Earth is part of a solar system located in the Milky Way Galaxy ... Catch a glimpse of a few galaxies out of one hundred billion galaxies in our Universe with these NASA images. The image ...

Stephan's Quintet, a group of five galaxies first discovered nearly 150 years ago, became the stage for this extraordinary ...

The most powerful cosmic-ray electrons and positrons ever detected slamming into Earth's atmosphere carry energies so high ...

A shockwave caused by the galaxy NGC 7318b slamming into four other galaxies is akin to a "sonic boom from a jet fighter." ...

Magnetic fields are everywhere in the universe. Of course, there's Earth's magnetic field, which deflects dangerous cosmic ...

As the universe expands (as it does in a dark matter-dominated universe) the distance between us and all other stars ...

Mr. Stark, you’ve become part of a bigger universe. After the Reed Richards of Earth-1610 used time travel to remake the ...