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

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

Hubble has captured a striking new image of NGC 2775, a galaxy that defies easy classification. Blending features of spirals, ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

The nearby satellite galaxy M32 can also be seen as a bright ball on the upper edge of Andromeda's disk while the milky splash of light below is in fact the elliptical galaxy Messier 110, which plays ...

Near-infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed five early universe galaxies merging within a large halo.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again pushed the boundaries of our understanding, unveiling unexpected details about the Spiderweb Protocluster, a dense galaxy formation site located ...

Astronomy James Webb telescope reveals dizzying galaxies in the Bullet Cluster: Space photo of the week Astronomy A cotton candy nebula glows in Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first close-up image: Space ...

The star-forming region called Sagittarius B2 contains half of the galactic center's stars, yet only 10% of the gas.

A Hubble Space Telescope study takes a close look at the dwarf galaxies surrounding Andromeda. Credit: NASA / ESA / J. Dalcanton / B.F. Williams / L.C. Johnson / PHAT team / R. Gendler Surrounding the ...

Astronomers have discovered a massive bridge of neutral hydrogen gas that connects two dwarf galaxies. Scientists at the University of Western Australia node of the International Centre (ICRAR) have ...