The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.

Every constellation has something within its borders worth tracking down, if you just look hard enough. Here are five to ...

The Galactic Center, a dense area in Sagittarius, acts as the Milky Way's gravitational center. Planetary conjunctions with ...

The blood-like hue of the image is owed to a combination of mid-infrared light from Webb with visible and ultraviolet light ...

The spiral arms of nearby galaxy Messier 81 is captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This galaxy is easily visible ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided us with some of the most awe-inspiring images of the universe, giving humanity a ...

the larger spiral galaxy at right. Both have increased star formation rates. Combined, they are estimated to form the equivalent of two dozen new stars that are the size of the Sun annually. Our Milky ...

Researchers have just shed light on an essential component of our Galaxy. A discovery that could transform our understanding of the Milky Way and its history. New astronomical ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

These celestial bodies, known as galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163, are engaged in a slow cosmic waltz that's both spooky and enlightening.

Such a galaxy is egg-shaped, and was likely formed by great collisions between spiral galaxies, such as what might occur ...