A newly revealed cosmic image shows two galaxy clusters colliding as one. Nicknamed the Champagne Cluster, it offers rare ...

Created using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the image offers scientists a rare, face-on view of how galaxies interact and merge. View on euronews ...

NASA has released a new composite image of two spiral galaxies, NGC 2207 and IC 2163, as they begin a multi-billion-year ...

The Champagne Cluster is a rare and beautiful example of two galaxy clusters smashing together. Its festive name comes from ...

New observations of a pair of colliding spiral galaxies hint at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and when they collide. The findings, described in July in the ...

Galaxy mergers are not uncommon throughout the Universe; in fact, they're thought to be one of the major mechanisms whereby ...

What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how you look at it. The James Webb Space Telescope has helped two international ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the “Infinity” galaxy — two recently-collided galaxies that, together, look like the symbol for ...

Scientists have long thought the Milky Way galaxy would someday collide with its closest neighbor, Andromeda. However, new research suggests the future of our cosmic home is more uncertain than ...

In this combination of images from NASA/ESA shows three future scenarios for Milky Way & Andromeda encounter. Top left: Galaxies bypass at 1 million light-year separation. Top right: At 500,000 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Last month when scientists announced new ...

Examples of merging galaxies containing a heavily obscured growing supermassive black hole observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The top panels show nearby galaxies at ~500 million light-years from ...