Stephan's Quintet, a group of five galaxies first discovered nearly 150 years ago, became the stage for this extraordinary ...

A new astronomical instrument has had its first outing observing the velocities of colliding galaxies in the famous Stephan’s ...

A galaxy racing through space at an astonishing speed of two million mph (3.2 million km/h) has created a dramatic collision.

A violent clash of galaxies has been caught in unprecedented detail by one of the most powerful telescopes based in La Palma, ...

Space scientists have observed five galaxies colliding at a staggering 2 million mph. The dramatic impact has been observed ...

Using one of the most powerful telescopes on Earth, astronomers have witnessed an intimidating 2-million-mile-per-hour ...

Our galaxy colliding with a nearby neighbour is one of the gruesome scenarios of how our world could end. Now, astronomers reveal what such a dramatic 'smash-up' event could look like.

Edwin Hubble's revelation in 1924 that the Andromeda Nebula was, in fact, an 'island universe,' was a pivotal moment in our ...

A massive collision of galaxies sparked by one traveling at a scarcely-believable 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) has been ...

The black hole’s mass is over half that of all the stars in the surrounding galaxy, a record for any galaxy hosting a quasar.

This galaxy group has been further energized by ... The team has made a surprising discovery about the shockwave created by the colliding galaxies. They found that the shockwave behaves ...

According to a new study, our Milky Way galaxy may have already begun colliding with the closest giant galaxy, Andromeda. Published in Nature Astronomy, the study reveals that there may be a ...