"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

In this special Hubble image 23 years in the making, the sparkling spiral galaxy UGC 10043 reveals the secrets of its ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and Milky-Way-like galaxy yet. The disc galaxy ... time to develop unique shapes and features like spiral arms. In the early universe, galaxies were ...

Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy UGC 2890. The "galaxy lies around 30 million light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis," according to the Hubble team.

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...

That’s because M101 is a grand spiral galaxy, with arms full of stars ... A cloud of gas and dust expanding into space with a spinning pulsar at its core, we know it was seen by humans because ...

Pulsar—A rapidly spinning neutron star that emits radio ... asteroids, comets). Spiral galaxy—A system of billions of stars with a central bulge of older stars surrounded by a flat disk ...