Galaxies

A new high-resolution, wide-field telescope situated in China offers its first stunning view.

The Royal Observatory of Greenwich's annual contest draws more than 4,000 submissions, and the winning images from this year's categories are stunning.

An immense bubble of galaxies, one billion light years wide and located 820 million light-years away, could be fossilized remains of the Big Bang.

The magnetic field is a thousand times weaker than Earth’s, but is spread out across 16,000 light years.

A new method to detect Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the universe could help measure cosmic distances more accurately.

A century-old mystery of how galaxies shift shapes has been solved by considering "survival of the fittest" collisions between cosmic titans also revealing the Milky Way was not always a spiral.

Whether you're a frequent jet-setter or a couch potato, you travel much more than you think, thanks the motion of the Earth, sun, Milky Way galaxy and more.

A galaxy that existed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang has revealed the distribution of its water content for the first time.

Located 13.2 billion light years away, a galaxy that existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang is home to one of the most distant sites of star birth, and death, ever seen.

Haley's Coronet is at war with its neighboring dwarf galaxy, and it's a gravitational struggle the latter is bound to lose.