A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.

STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...

has been seen in unprecedented detail by one of Earth's most powerful telescopes. The dramatic impact was observed in Stephan's Quintet, a nearby galaxy group made up of five galaxies first ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

Here's how to see it:Planetary alignments aren ... detected more than 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy that are brighter than Earth's sun. But astronomers estimate the total population ...

is the largest of its kind ever seen so far away. The newly imaged stars are located within the "Dragon Arc," a spiral galaxy roughly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth when the universe was ...

New research suggests that the carbon that serves as the building blocks of life "took the long way around" the galaxy before coming together to make up our bodies here on Earth. The scientists ...

NASA/ESA All carbon in the universe forms in the fiery cores of stars, but the element that makes up 18% of our bodies may have taken a detour through the outer edges of our galaxy—and perhaps ...

This is the first time we have seen this process … It is so beautiful because the early life of a galaxy is extremely ... emotion when they view the earth from the unique perspective of a ...