In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion light-years away. The foreground galaxy's mass magnifies and distorts the image ...

NGC 3640 shows signs of past galaxy mergers, per astronomers The elliptical galaxy may soon absorb its smaller neighbor, NGC 3641 VLT images reveal remnants of previous galactic collisions ...

The game is coming from studio Playable Worlds, led by Raph Koster, one of the lead creators of MMO classics like Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies. Stars Reach is putting a heavy emphasis on ...

New images from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory suggest that the galaxy, known as NGC 3640, may soon merge with a smaller galactic ...

Recently, the Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) spotted an Einstein ring in the galaxy NGC 6505, just 590 million lightyears from the earth. This may sound like a long ...

This was the end of the cosmic dark ages and the start of galaxy formation. These first stars and the galaxies they formed were very different from anything we see in the modern universe.

Contained within a small galaxy located 5.3 million light-years away are big clues about how stars can form. In fact, scientists didn't really expect that stars would even be able to still form at ...

Hubble’s work opened the door to the study of the universe beyond our galaxy. In the century since Hubble’s pioneering work, astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and ...

Hubble’s work opened the door to the study of the universe beyond our galaxy. In the century since Hubble’s pioneering work, astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and ...

The Samsung Galaxy S25 is one of the least exciting phones I've used in some time. Don't get me wrong: it's good. The hardware's premium, performance is top shelf, and its cameras are fine enough.