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

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.

The universe came into existence just under 14 billion years ago, with the main phase of star and galaxy formation peaking at ...

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

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The universe's vastness challenges human comprehension. It contains trillions of galaxies and countless stars. Pluto's ...

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From stars and nebulas shining hundreds of light-years away, to views of closer cosmic objects like Mars ... see spiral galaxies that look like our own along with yellow-tinged elliptical galaxies ...

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

Mars has received considerable attention in the past few decades, thanks to the many robotic missions exploring it to learn ...

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 ...