A gorgeous new set of images shows the striking sight of nearby galaxies, captured by a telescope called the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), located at the European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s ...

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...

“However, the observation proved that it’s in a relatively nearby galaxy, making it still a puzzling FRB but close enough to now study using many other telescopes.” Actually determining what ...

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured images of 19 galaxies near the Milky Way in more detail than ever before. The colorful depictions create new opportunities for studying ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Galaxies merge, and when they do, the black holes at their centers often merge, too.

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...

Most galaxies, including our Milky Way, contain tens of billions of stars that are readily observable. Even in nearby galaxies, such as Andromeda, which is about 2.5 million light-years away ...

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...