NASA and ESA release a Hubble image of NGC 7722 showing dust lanes, rings, and supernova follow-up observations in a lenticular galaxy.

US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera has captured imagery of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512 and its neighbor ...

The northern sky's greatest galaxy gets its familiar name from the northern constellation where it resides, Andromeda the ...

A monstrous galaxy named Inkathazo with plasma jets 32 times larger than the Milky Way has been discovered, challenging ...

Scientists continue to push the boundaries of astronomy and cosmology, thanks to next-generation instruments that can see farther and clearer than ever before. Through these efforts, astronomers have ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...

Early in the story of the universe, long before galaxies like the Milky Way were expected to take shape, astronomers have now identified a system that already looks strikingly familiar. Researchers at ...

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars. Planet Earth sits along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times ...

Image of the newly discovered spiral galaxy Alaknanda (inset) as observed in the shorter wavelength JWST bands. Several bright galaxies from the foreground Abell 2744 ...

Scientists have discovered Alaknanda, a so-called "grand design" spiral galaxy, just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. - NASA / CSA / ESA / Rashi Jain For decades, astronomers believed galaxies in ...