The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...
New research suggests that just before Voyager 2 arrived, Uranus was hit by a rare blast of solar wind from the Sun that ...
At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...
This low-mass supermassive black hole, spotted with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered surprisingly large and bright early galaxies. This discovery challenges the ...
Webb captures merging galaxy pairs known as II ZW 96. It is located around 500 million light-years away from Earth. This ...
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows LEDA 42160, a galaxy about 52 million light-years from Earth. The dwarf galaxy is one ...
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The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
An international team that includes the University of Bath in the UK has discovered three ultra-massive galaxies (‘Red ...
Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...