Messier 83 was discovered in 1752, but it wasn't realized that it's actually a galaxy outside the Milky Way until Edwin ...

A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, known as NGC 5643, is ...

Astrophysics breakthrough: new evidence unravels the mystery of how massive elliptical galaxies form, shedding light on their ...

The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 1637, a spiral galaxy located 38 million light-years from ...

Galaxies in the present-day Universe fall into two broad categories. There are spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, which are ...

"Our findings take us closer to solving a long-standing mystery in astronomy that will redefine our understanding of how ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured its best-ever image of the Antennae Galaxies. Previous images, taken in 1997 and 2006, were improved with upgrades from servicing missions. Hubble's 2006 image ...

Ancient galaxies have irregular shapes due to intense star formation from cold gas flows and galaxy collisions, as revealed ...

Using the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in Mexico, astronomers have performed spectroscopic observations of the Swelling ...

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Astronomers study various galaxy populations and their physical characteristics within large-scale structures to understand ...

The discovery of the birth sites of giant, elliptical galaxies comes from analyzing data from the Atacama Large ...