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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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

"It's extremely rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole that is more than 400 million times the mass of the Sun -- which is pretty big -- plus young ...

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 ...