What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how you look at it. The James Webb Space Telescope has helped two international ...

While Donald Trump and Elon Musk beef continues, there is something even bigger happening in the cosmos. Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory, along with other telescopes, has captured a rare cosmic event ...

The universe is dynamic and constantly moving, and so are the galaxies enclosed in it. But what if two huge spiral galaxies draw closer, due to their gravity and pull everything around them into ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has peered through cosmic dust to reveal new details and a stunning image of a rare type of galaxy. The space observatory's latest image shows the Cartwheel galaxy, a ...

Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum plaguing the standard model of cosmology. New observations of a pair of ...

It's been textbook knowledge for over a century that our Milky Way galaxy is doomed to collide with another large spiral galaxy, Andromeda, in the next 5 billion years and merge into one even bigger ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

A new study in the journal Nature Astronomy this week called into question the long-held assumption that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course. The paper concluded that there ...