a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This Hubble image of a loosely bound collections of stars reveals a portion of the open ...

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 ...

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

An image from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) shows a striking celestial sight: the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, a gorgeous face-on galaxy that is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies ...

A new image from NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5643, located approximately 40 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured 19 spiral galaxies "face-on" in near- and mid-infrared. The images "show stars, ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Windhorst, W. Keel This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043 ...

"As fascinating as the galaxy appears at visible wavelengths, some of NGC 5643's most interesting features are invisible to ...

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

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

My collaborators and I have just tackled one of astrophysics’ enduring mysteries: how massive elliptical galaxies can form.

Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists ...