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 ...

Located around 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy that, alongside its neighbor the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), is gravitationally bound to our ...

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 ...