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 ...

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

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

Messier 83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel galaxy, is one of the most prominent spiral galaxies in the night sky. It's ...

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope may be living our dream of wandering through the cosmos. It's the year 2000. We're floating in ...

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

See how elliptical galaxies in the distant universe were born, as new research gives astronomers a closer look at galactic ...

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

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

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