Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study nearby dwarf galaxies discovered a puzzle: Those galaxies have far less oxygen than expected.

At the start of the month, Mars is higher in the sky but is heading rapidly downward and passes to the left of Jupiter on ...

When you think of galaxies, you probably imagine them spinning around in a spiral. Our Milky Way galaxy, along with the solar ...

Stunning face-on spiral M74 is visible after dark this evening, showing off its bright nucleus and fainter asymmetrical arms ...

Uncover how Gaia data reveals the Milky Way’s two-stage disk formation, explaining why its oldest stars formed in a thicker, ...

A Spanish-led team dated stars with Gaia and found the galactic disk formed in two stages, a puffy turbulent one and then a ...

From a distance, Arp 220 looks like a single galaxy with a brilliant center and enormous clouds of glowing material spreading into space. But the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed something far ...

A long, thin band of light floating in spaceWhen you hear the words 'galaxy floating in the night sky,' many of you probably ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of NGC 1827, a spiral galaxy located around 37 million light-years from Earth. Seen from the side, the galaxy reveals long, dark dust lanes, ...

As you can see in this dual image, two different observatories looked at the same galaxy and ended up with totally opposite results. M83, or Messier 83, is a spiral galaxy found 15 million light-years ...

Astronomers have discovered a faint population of young stars extending far beyond the known edge of the nearby spiral galaxy Messier 74. The finding suggests the galaxy is nearly twice as large as ...

NGC 4698 is a spiral galaxy spinning in two directions - Image: ESA / NASA / D. Thilker / MAUVE-HST Team Within the Virgo Cluster, lies NGC 4698, a spiral galaxy roughly 55 million light-years away ...