Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

Rather than solid arms, spiral galaxies may show density waves—regions where matter slows down and bunches up, like cars in ...

NASA and the European Space Agency recently shared an image of an oddly shaped spiral galaxy located about 190 million ...

Captured by the VST, NGC 3640 reveals a turbulent history of cosmic cannibalism, but its current companion, NGC 3641, remains ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...

Scientists believe the black hole may have been ejected or originated from a merged galaxy. Source: NASA Hidden 600 million light-years away in the vastness of space from our naked eye sight lies ...

In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, the researchers suggest that the high energy neutrinos from NGC 1068 primarily result from the decay of neutrons when helium nuclei in the galaxy ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has canceled plans to find a commercial partner to launch a robotic lunar rover and will instead pursue “alternative approaches” to fly the mission. In a May 7 statement ...

The Trump administration proposed significant budget cuts to NASA, potentially impacting international collaborations and shifting focus from the moon to Mars. ESA Director General Josef ...

The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy. In modern times, though, we use “galaxy” more generically to ...