NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center pays tribute to Captain Jean-Luc Picard ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified the most distant known ring galaxy, seen as it appeared only 2.1 billion years ...

A distant ring galaxy identified by JWST may indicate that head-on galactic collisions were more frequent in the early ...

An astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo is using data from the Canada–France–Hawaiʻi Telescope (CFHT) on Maunakea to help reconstruct a slow-motion cosmic collision, one that has been ...

Today’s Image of the Day from the European Space Agency reveals a galaxy still bearing the scars of a violent collision. Located about 25 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, Arp 263 is ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. The Infinity galaxy, observed with the James ...

Astronomers think that some 10 billion years ago, our Milky Way galaxy collided with another galaxy, which they’ve dubbed the Gaia Sausage. And on July 21, 2026, a team of astronomers at the Royal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This illustration shows a possible view from Earth of the early stages of a predicted merger billions of years from now between ...

A collision may have left these galaxies without dark matter. That spells trouble for alternative gravity theories.

A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never seen this type of explosive event in an ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered evidence that our galaxy experienced a significant collision and merger with a dwarf galaxy 11.8 billion years ago. Mergers between galaxies are one of the ...