SETI begins 'extragalactic' search for advanced alien life The SETI Institute recently began searching for signs of advanced ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, has unveiled captivating images of galaxies such as N11, VV124, M33, NGC 1569, ...

Using recent observations of nearby galaxies collected by Gaia and Hubble space telescopes, Sawala and his colleagues simulated possible scenarios for the evolution of the Local Group in which the ...

Hubble's latest image reveals the isolated Tucana Dwarf Galaxy, a cosmic fossil offering insights into early galactic ...

Cosmology scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have made a rare discovery: a cluster of galaxies that span ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope captures one of the universe's most dramatic events: the colliding of two galaxies.

These four dominate the Local Group. In galaxy clusters—large collections ... s central supermassive black hole, piling up just outside to form an infernally hot accretion disk.

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have found a galaxy cluster has two streams of superheated gas.

The Triangulum Galaxy, the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, is shining with star formation in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Located nearly 3 million light years ...

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As public interest in UFOs mounts, the SETI Institute is looking not to Earth to find signs of advanced alien lifeforms, but ...

The SETI Institute recently began searching for signs of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in distant galaxies outside our own. The research comes at a time when the notion that strange ...