Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...

Europe's Euclid space telescope, which is on a mission to shed light on the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, ...

The Euclid space telescope has dropped its first data and deep field observations showing millions of galaxies in great ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called Sagittarius A*). Supermassive black holes are the densest objects in the ...

This intermediate spiral galaxy is located about 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. Known as NGC 4536, the galaxy boasts sweeping spiral arms speckled with bright blue ...

Disk galaxies typically have clear spiral arms extending outward from a dense central region. Our Milky Way itself is a disk galaxy, characterised by beautiful spiral arms that wrap around its centre.

This not-too-distant celestial body (it's only 42 million light-years away!) is a spiral galaxy much like Earth's own Milky Way. But because of where we are and how it's situated, Hubble's photo ...

Galaxies are titanic swarms of tens of millions to trillions of stars. Between the stars, there can be vast interstellar clouds of gas and dust. Spiral galaxies have a thin, pancake-shaped disk ...

If you see a pair of bright eyes in the inky depths of space, you’re seeing what a team of astronomers spied last year—a rare formation created by the grazing collision of two spiral galaxies.

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous galaxy bursting with new star formation. This intermediate spiral galaxy is located about 50 million light-years from Earth in ...