A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an international team of astronomers led by Penn State scientists. The burst, known ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provides more surprising details as the archive hides unique galactic visuals. The extragalactic cosmic fields have revealed a sample of galaxies with features ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. A team had found a small, strange galaxy that appeared to ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

In the very young universe, just a fraction of its current age, astronomers have stumbled on a set of objects that refuse to behave the way galaxies are supposed to. Compact, brilliant and oddly ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose an entirely new type of cosmic structure: black hole stars. These exotic ...