When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/ ESA Astronomers have discovered that large flows of cold gas created by collisions ...

Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace.

Do all stars exist in galaxies, or do some exist in intergalactic space?Thomas GriffilthAtlantic City, New Jersey Nearly all ...

As the Large Magellanic Cloud drifts closer to the Milky Way, its newly discovered black hole may one day encounter ...

Gas cloud collisions during galaxy mergers compress interstellar material, triggering new star formation, as observed in interacting systems studied by NASA and reported by Universe Today.

Webb and Chandra reveal two spiral galaxies after an encounter, exposing heated gas, newborn stars and distorted arms, while ...

The Champagne Cluster is a rare and beautiful example of two galaxy clusters smashing together. Its festive name comes from ...

The discovery of thousands more galaxies with stars ringing their main disks could help astronomers study galactic evolution ...

NASA has released a new composite image of two spiral galaxies, NGC 2207 and IC 2163, as they begin a multi-billion-year ...

Some 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, a massive event is unfolding on cosmic scales. There, not two, but three galaxies ...

The system is known as J1218/1219+1035, and is located 1.2 billion light-years from us. The three nuclei of the three ...

"Our findings take us closer to solving a long-standing mystery in astronomy that will redefine our understanding of how galaxies were created in the early universe." When you purchase through links ...