The Sombrero Galaxy, also called Messier 104, sits around 31 million light-years away. It’s located in the direction of the ...

On an observing table, Barbara had set up The Hubble Atlas of Galaxies, the Uranometria 2000 ... massive black hole at the center of this giant elliptical galaxy. (Nothing can escape from inside ...

A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red ...

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate planet where snow or rain falls from the sky, and rivers rush down valleys to ...

It's not clear whether it's a spiral galaxy, like our own Milky Way, or an elliptical galaxy. Curiously, the galaxy's disk seems like a fairly typical disk for a spiral galaxy, and its spheroidal ...

Given the extreme angle at which it is viewed, astronomers are unsure if the Sombrero is a spiral galaxy or an elliptical galaxy. While it is packed with stars and hosts a supermassive black hole ...

while it has the disc typical of spiral galaxies, it also features a halo and bulge seen in elliptical galaxies. This has puzzled scientists, leaving the Sombrero Galaxy classified somewhere ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered siderite in Gale Crater. This shows Mars had a partial carbon cycle, storing and releasing ...