An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

However, we now know that NGC 6052 actually consists of two galaxies that are in the process of colliding. A lot of very interesting things happen when galaxies collide, not least of which is the ...

These findings will help scientists understand how giant galaxies interact, collide, and merge to produce ... it at an ...

The elliptical galaxy at the center of this Einstein ring belongs to a galaxy cluster named SMACSJ0028.2-7537. It can be seen as the oval-shaped, featurless glow around the small bright core.

A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star ...

Space scientists have observed five galaxies colliding at a staggering 2 million mph. The dramatic impact has been observed in unprecedented detail in Stephan's Quintet, a nearby galaxy group ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Galaxies throughout the universe collide and merge all the time. Even our own Milky Way ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

It's a galaxy-eat-galaxy universe out there. Big ones eat little ones, then the big ones "merge" with other big ones. Mergers start out as collisions. Two spiral galaxies sail into and through ...