Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.

The galaxy, officially named LEDA 1313424, lies approximately 567 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces.

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

G alaxy LEDA 1313424 is a beauty. It is 2.5 times the size of the Milky Way and has something no other galaxy has: A series ...

Astronomers detect signs of a massive, invisible black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which may collide with the Milky ...

The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest stunning images have allowed scientists to solve the mystery of the Bullseye Galaxy’s ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a galaxy resembling a bullseye, with multiple rings expanding from its centre.

"This was probably due to a collision with another galaxy in the neighborhood." A possible culprit is the compact satellite galaxy Messier 32, which resembles the stripped-down core of a once ...

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the unusual Antlia Cluster. Why it's so special: Astronomers used a telescope in ...

In a study published today by The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a research team led by Yale University’s Imad Pasha ...

A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers ... as objects of interest with non-negligible collision probabilities. Among them is the asteroid Bennu ...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a record-smashing galaxy wrapped in 9 rings of stars — along with ...