The highly inclined barred spiral M108 in Ursa Major is sometimes called the Surfboard Galaxy. It's not to be missed.

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Early Spiral Galaxy Captured for the First Time Using Gravitational Lenses . For the first time ever, scientists have ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy NGC 2283, which is located about 45 million light-years ...

“For example, Chandra’s X-rays reveal the high-energy radiation around the supermassive black hole at the center of M31 as ...

Locations of HVCs. Multiple images like this, made by radioastronomy, allowed researchers to measure the velocities of small clouds of gas against the more general movement of the galactic disk itself ...

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

Researchers discover high-velocity clouds in the nearby spiral galaxy M83. These clouds are moving at speeds significantly ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way ...