Recent astronomical research indicates that our Earth may be embedded within one of the largest known structures in the ...

An artist’s impression of the “Cosmic Grapes” galaxy, composed of at least 15 massive star-forming clumps—far more than current theoretical models predict could exist within a single rotating disk at ...

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Japanese researchers have proposed that immense gas streams may explain how high-mass stars manage to grow despite releasing powerful stellar winds and radiation that should otherwise halt their ...

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

Astronomers may have uncovered the origins of the mysterious “little red dots,” some of the strangest galaxies seen in the early universe. These tiny but brilliant objects, discovered by the James ...

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We already know a decent amount about how planets form, but moon formation is another process entirely, and one we're not as familiar with. Scientists think they understand how the most important moon ...

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Hubble has captured the faint beauty of NGC 45, a spiral galaxy in Cetus whose glowing pink star-forming clouds reveal hidden activity. It belongs to the rare class of low surface brightness galaxies, ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot. Among the hundreds of billions of galaxies that stretch across the known universe ...