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Astronomers have spotted the most distant and brightest "space laser" ever seen, blasting out from a distant galaxy collision ...

A violent collision between two dwarf galaxies strips them of their dark matter.

Astronomers have long argued that dark matter is the invisible scaffolding that holds galaxies together. Without its immense ...

An astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo is using data from the Canada–France–Hawaiʻi Telescope (CFHT) on Maunakea ...

Dr. Pierre Martin and his team created an animation showing two galaxies colliding more than 440 million years ago.

In a patch of sky about 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in a merger, and all three of their central supermassive black holes are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode. ESO/L.

Astronomers have spotted a jaw-dropping collision between two neutron stars – and it may have produced gold and platinum. The discovery in a tiny, faraway galaxy is the first time this has been seen ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The catastropic cosmic event sent light and ...