Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. White diamond symbols mark the locations of 20 of the 83 newfound young, low-mass galaxies ...

Will the universe keep existing forever? An astrophysicist explains how scientists aren’t entirely sure, but they can make ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...

Ordinary matter – basically, anything other than dark matter – makes up about 15% of all matter. But half of it has long been missing. Powerful bursts of radio waves emanating from 69 locations in the ...