Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the glittering spiral galaxy NGC 6951, where a central bar fuels a spectacular ring of ...

The inner region is smooth and devoid of gas, characteristics typical of elliptical galaxies. There, star formation has essentially ceased, leaving behind an ageing population of stars.

October is an excellent time to observe the Andromeda spiral galaxy as it passes high overhead in the Autumn night sky.

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...

Elliptical galaxies instead tend to be older, more massive, and with stars distributed not in a nice little disk, but in a ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

Scientists are attributing the mysterious, diffuse glow at our galaxy's center to dark matter, a phenomenon usually linked ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

Recent studies suggest a revolutionary perspective on dark matter, proposing that it behaves like a cosmic superfluid, ...

When galaxies collide, it's not a gentle affair, but it does take millions of years. Over this time, the two massive star ...