The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international team led by Nikolaus Sulzenauer and Axel Weiß from the Max Planck ...

Astronomers used AI to search 35 years of Hubble data and discovered over 1,300 rare cosmic anomalies hidden in plain sight.

Interacting galaxies as a research area focuses on the dynamical, hydrodynamical, and radiative processes that occur when galaxies experience mutual gravitational influence, including fly-bys, minor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of interacting galaxies Arp 142. Arp 142 consists of a distorted ...

On February 6, 2025, NASA was releasing six breathtaking pictures of interacting galaxies taken through the Hubble Space Telescope. Such photos are scarce and show the detailed processes that are ...

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 ...

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient progenitors of galaxies like ours were small galaxies similar to modern-day ...

Illustration of the underlying astrophysical processes that suppress star formation in red geyser galaxies, according to this new study. Galaxy interactions transfer cool gas clouds that fall into ...

New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early Universe.