Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of astronomers over the centuries. Originally discovered in the 1700s by ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy UGC 2890. The "galaxy lies around 30 million light-years ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

The JWST's image of the Big Wheel galaxy, a massive rotating disk 11.7 billion light-years away. Its spiral stretches 100,000 ...

NASA's Hubble has captured stunning images of NGC 4941, revealing details of star formation, helping scientists understand ...

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 ...

Was the cosmic whirlpool a spiral galaxy, a UFO, or something much more down to Earth? Is it a plane? Is it a satellite? Is it a galaxy? Is it aliens? A strange blue spiral lit up the skies over ...

The behemoth, nicknamed J2345-0449, is a giant radio galaxy, or "super spiral" galaxy roughly three times the size of the Milky Way.Like our own spiral galaxy, it harbors a supermassive black hole ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a plume of dust and gas from a newborn star. NASA said in a statement it was ...

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 ...