Yale astronomers have announced the discovery of a galaxy with nine concentric rings—the most rings ever seen in a single ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

The United States Postal Service has issued two new stamps featuring stellar images beamed back to Earth by the James Webb ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

Spiral galaxies — which account for about 60% of all galaxies in the universe, according to the European Space Agency — are, by chance, typically seen face-on when viewed from the solar system.

Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...

But astronomers scrutinizing this particular Hubble image found the central galaxy actually sports a swirl of spiral arms seemingly unruffled by any such merger, raising new questions about what ...

First up is the Andromeda Galaxy, our closest neighbour in the cosmos, featuring stunning spiral arms and a vibrant central core. Next is the Whirlpool Galaxy, a breathtaking spiral with a ...

Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars.

In modern times, around two-thirds of the spiral galaxies we have ... galactic structure of Milky Way-like galaxies from ages past. These galaxies were all located between eight and 11 billion ...