or a planet like Earth, may look like the view depicted below: the bright center of an enormous elliptical galaxy. A giant elliptical galaxy formed after the merger of the Milky Way and Andromeda ...

T he Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a striking new image of Messier 90 (M90), a stunning spiral galaxy in the Virgo constellation that is moving closer to Earth. Situated approximately 55 ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose ... Galactic bones, filaments of radio-wave-emitting particles, run through our galaxy, and one of them has a fracture. New analysis suggests ...

I mean, a galaxy cluster deemed "ACT-CL J0102-4915 ... is inviting the public to submit name ideas for one of Earth's quasi-moons. Right now, the object is named 2004 GU9, or asteroid 164207 ...

Astrophotographer Ron Brecher has captured a stunning deep sky image of the spiral galaxy M106 ... software to image cosmic objects ranging from Earth's moon, to monstrous deep sky galaxies.

The itsy-bitsy satellite galaxy is named Andromeda XXXV and sits about 3 million light-years from Earth. The discovery of the galaxy gives astronomers a useful comparative tool for studying ...

How this galaxy originated remains unclear. A team of physicists now offers an explanation. Crater 2, located approximately 380,000 light years from Earth, is one of the largest satellite galaxies ...

The most powerful telescope ever put into space has made a historic discovery. The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a ...

Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy ... of years across space to Earth. Light from JADES-GS-z14-0 has taken ...