London: Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have unearthed a "relic galaxy" in the Milky Way's backyard. The galaxy NGC 1277, lies near the centre of the Perseus cluster of over 1,000 ...

A recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics examines how a distant galaxy potentially doesn’t possess dark matter, a mysterious substance that researchers hypothesize could comprise ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A galaxy with an exceptionally bright, stretched-out disk of light around it Our picture of cosmic evolution could be thrown into ...

A galaxy just over 230 million light-years away in the nearby Perseus cluster looks as if it was snatched from the dawn of time and delivered to our galactic neighborhood, new observations reveal. The ...

March 13 (UPI) --New analysis of a "relic galaxy" promises insights into the nature of the early universe. Formed some 12 billion years ago, the NGC 1277 galaxy birthed all of its stars within a span ...

A rare galaxy stuck in a state of arrested development is providing scientists with a unique window into the early days of the universe. The unusual cosmic region has remained frozen for the past 10 ...

Astronomers have found a galaxy that shouldn’t exist — one without dark matter. Enormous galaxy NGC 1277 was supposed to help Sebastién Comerón of the University of La Laguna and the Instituto de ...

Dark matter, seemingly invisible, is thought to make up a vast majority of all matter in the universe. A massive galaxy having none would challenge everything we know about the universe. A galaxy ...