Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest ...

According to NASA, the gigantic elliptical galaxy (dubbed NGC 474 ... quiet': NASA's Perseverance rover gives a snippet of what Mars sounds like And the Milky Way is on course for another ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image features a remote galaxy, which appears as a red arc that partially encircles a foreground ...

I don't usually compare what we see going on out there in space with mediaeval ritual, but in this case it is hard to resist.

Mars appears full, but it also looks slightly ... From this star, we’re sliding 8.2° southeast to NGC 185, a 9th-magnitude dwarf elliptical galaxy that will look like a small, oval-shaped ...

What it is: The galaxy NGC 4694, a member of the Virgo galaxy cluster Where it is: 54 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation Virgo When it was shared: Sept. 30, 2024 Why it's so ...

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about ...

Spirals are only one of four major classifications for galaxies; the others are elliptical, irregular and peculiar. Elliptical galaxies would be better called spheroidal; they can be spherical but ...

The roiling gamma, cosmic, and X-rays documented coming from its black hole are almost only seen in elliptical galaxies. Based on traditional theory, these powerful radio jets should be disrupting ...

A photo of the huge elliptical galaxy M87 [left] is compared to its three-dimensional shape as gleaned from meticulous observations made with the Hubble and Keck telescopes [right]. Because the ...