London, May 9 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered a never-before-seen cluster of hydrogen clouds strewn between two nearby galaxies, Andromeda (M31) and Triangulum (M33).

Washington, May 9 (ANI): Astronomers are asking members of the public to help them search for "space warps."

Washington, May 3 (ANI): A new dark matter experiment has begun its search for the invisible particle, which astrophysicists think accounts for about a quarter of the matter and energy in the universe.

Washington, May 1(ANI): The Chandra X-ray Observatory has helped scientists to make a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large, colliding galaxies.

Washington, April 26 (ANI): Bursts of star birth have a significantly greater effect on their host galaxy than previously thought, according to a new study.

Washington, April 23 (ANI): Scientists have developed a method to measure the rate of the universe's expansion using certain types of active black holes that lie at the center of many galaxies.

Washington, Apr 4 (ANI): The rare Green Pea galaxies that were discovered by the general public in 2007 could help confirm astronomers' understanding of reionization - a pivotal stage in the evolution of the early universe, according to a new study.

Washington, April 3 (ANI): How spiral galaxies like our Milky Way get and maintain their characteristic arms has proved to be an enduring puzzle in astrophysics.

Washington, April 1 (ANI): While studying young galaxies at a distance of 11.6 billion light-years from Earth, a team of astronomers has noticed a strangely shaped galaxy that looks like a "magatama", an ancient, comma-shaped Japanese amulet made of stone.

Washington, March 29 (ANI): The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a vivid image of spiral galaxy Messier 77 -- a galaxy in the constellation of Cetus, some 45 million light-years away from us. Also known as NGC 1068, Messier 77 is one of the most famous and well-studied galaxies. It is a real star among galaxies, with more papers written about it than many other galaxies put together.

Washington, Mar 16 (ANI): Distant, dust-filled galaxies were bursting with newborn stars much earlier in cosmic history than previously thought, a new study suggests.

Washington, March 14 (ANI): Scientists across the UK are proudly celebrating the monumental achievement of the completion of ALMA - the most complex ground-based telescope in existence.

Washington, March 14 (ANI): New observations by a Caltech-led team have discovered dozens of starburst galaxies that were churning out stars when the universe was just a billion years old.

Washington, Feb 23 (ANI): Black holes are voracious absences at the center of galaxies that shape the growth and death of the stars around them through their powerful gravitational pull and explosive ejections of energy.

Washington, February 22 (ANI): NASA's Hubble Space Telescope peered deep into the vast stellar halo that envelops our Milky Way galaxy and uncovered tantalizing evidence for the possible existence of a shell of stars that are a relic of cannibalism by our Milky Way.

Washington, February 3(ANI): Astronomers have identified "cosmic web stripping" as a new way of explaining the famous missing dwarf problem: the lack of observed dwarf galaxies compared with that predicted by the theory of cold dark matter and dark energy.

Washington, Feb 1 (ANI): Scientists have developed a new technique of measuring the mass of supermassive black holes, which could revolutionise our understanding of how they form and help to shape galaxies.

Washington, January 25 (ANI): An astronomer, who depends on other astronomers who make observations of stars and galaxies through telescopes on high mountain tops, makes use of large computers for understanding how galaxies formed billions of years ago and how they continue to evolve in our contemporary universe.

Washington, January 12 (ANI): In a new study, researchers have provided direct empirical evidence for the pristine gas that should be falling onto galaxies using new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope.

London, January 4 (ANI): Astronomers have found a group of dwarf galaxies moving in unison in the vicinity of the Andromeda Galaxy.

London, December 31 (ANI): Astronomers hope that the huge radio telescope facility in Western Australia officially opened earlier this year will help them uncover 700,000 new galaxies in 2013.

Washington, December 19 (ANI): Bright X-ray flares in nearby galaxies, once assumed to indicate the presence of black holes, can in fact be produced by white dwarfs, a new research has revealed.

Washington, December 5 (ANI): Astronomers have combined the observing powers of ESA's Herschel space observatory and the ground-based Keck telescopes and characterized hundreds of previously unseen starburst galaxies, revealing extraordinary high star-formation rates across the history of the universe.

London, November 29(ANI): Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory, astronomers have measured the mass of what may be the most massive black hole yet -- 17 billion Suns-in galaxy NGC 1277.

Washington, November 10 (ANI): Scientists planning for CSIRO's next-generation Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) are hoping to find an unprecedented 700,000 new galaxies with the country's newest radio telescope.