The brutal star-destroying tidal disruption event is only the second ever seen in interacting galaxies.

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for a head-on crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new study ...

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes.

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the ...

potentially unlocking a deeper understanding of the origins of stars, planets, and life in the universe. Aspera joins a list of NASA science missions awarded to Rocket Lab including the CAPSTONE ...

Galactic bones, filaments of radio-wave-emitting particles, run through our galaxy, and one of them has a fracture. New ...

Astronomers are using Hubble to study vivid gas clouds and newborn stars in the tilted spiral galaxy NGC 3511.