Abell 209 dazzles with golden galaxies, but its real story is the unseen: scorching intergalactic gas and a vast cloak of ...

Stargazers have plenty of night sky events to look forward to in July. After all the stunning celestial displays so far in ...

“We also find an approximately 0.3 percent chance that Mars will be lost through collision or ejection and an approximately 0.2 percent probability that Earth will be involved in a planetary collision ...

Large international telescopes have revealed two galaxies that seem to be involved in a savage duel. It is an unequal fight because one of the galaxies is armed with a super-massive black hole.

When NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of an elliptical galaxy, it caught something else in the frame: A bright, red arc of light wrapped around it. That glowing curve isn't the ...

Here we see light from a distant galaxy following the curve of spacetime created by the elliptical galaxy's mass.

Galaxies come in many different variations, but astronomers classify them into four main types: spiral, elliptical, irregular and peculiar.

Type c-D elliptical galaxies are a subtype of giant elliptical galaxies and are characterized by a large halo of stars. Lenticular galaxies are an intermediate galaxy between elliptical galaxies and ...

Scientists, with the help of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, found a strange object on the Red Planet. The object looks like a cluster of hundreds of spider eggs. In a statement, the US-based space ...

First fast radio burst traced to old, dead, elliptical galaxy ‘A picture is emerging that shows maybe not all FRBs come from young stars’ Peer-Reviewed Publication Northwestern University ...

The formation of elliptical galaxies has long been difficult to explain with cosmological models describing the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to now.

The distorted spiral galaxy at center, the Penguin, and the compact elliptical at left, the Egg, are locked in an active embrace. Credit: NASA The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ...