Astronomers have captured the deepest images ever obtained of IC 1101, allowing them to identify the galaxy’s outer edge for the first time. The observations confirm that the giant system spans about ...

While galaxies are among the largest structures in the universe, some are more impressive than others. This is the case for IC 1101, a galaxy considered to be the largest of all known galaxies to date ...

The more astronomers learn about the universe's earliest galaxies, the stranger they seem. Many of their surprising ...

Astronomers have discovered a remarkably tiny group of six young galaxies just 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. This may be a rare glimpse of how some of the universe's largest galaxies formed.

Discover seven unusual galaxies defying scientific predictions, from impossibly bright early universe objects to astrophysics mysteries that challenge everything we know about cosmic evolution. The ...