An international team of astronomers has detected the most distant radio galaxy ever observed. By measuring the redshift of its light, the researchers determined that the object is about 12 billion ...

For decades, astronomers have mapped the Milky Way using visible light, but much of our galaxy has remained hidden behind ...

A striking orange and blue streak fills this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble’s visible and infrared capabilities captured this edge-on view of lenticular galaxy NGC 612.

A team of international astronomers has made an unprecedented discovery of a galaxy that has undergone a significant classification shift due to its core activity. Previously known as a radio galaxy, ...

A dwarf galaxy appears responsible for some of the universe’s most intense fast radio bursts. In A Nutshell Astronomers ...

An international team of astronomers has performed radio observations of a star-forming galaxy known as NGC 4217. The observational campaign detected a large radio bubble in the galaxy's halo. The ...

NASA published a snapshot this week of a strange and beautiful galaxy. It’s so weird that NASA officials say it’s one of only five such galaxies known to exist in the universe. But, even stranger ...

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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Christopher Riseley, Research Fellow, Università di ...

Astronomers have reportedly identified the oldest known fossil radio galaxy, and it is hidden in the Abell 980 galaxy cluster. As reported first by ScienceAlert, supermassive black hole activity ...