NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), resolving the ...

Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is ...

Galactic mergers play a key role in the evolution of the universe, driving the growth of larger galaxies and the overall ...

One day, however, the two galaxies may collide, forming a giant, egg-shaped elliptical galaxy. But that great merger won't happen for billions of years. Mark is an award-winning journalist and the ...

"Andromeda looks like a transitional type of galaxy that's between a star-forming spiral and a sort of elliptical galaxy dominated by aging red stars," Weisz said. "We can tell it's got this big ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ...

It was tracked back to an old elliptical galaxy about 2 billion light-years ... it’s like adding another piece to the giant cosmic puzzle. Recent discoveries keep throwing us curveballs by ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

Instead, the orbits of our planets are slightly tilted, and their paths are more elliptical than perfectly ... may have disturbed the orbits of the giant planets, setting them on their current ...

This combination worked like a giant pair of astronomical binoculars ... Unlike most galaxies where these signals have been found before, this one is an elliptical galaxy estimated to be 11.3 billion ...

Abstract: We have performed a spectroscopic study of globular clusters (GCs) in the nearest giant elliptical NGC 5128 using the 2dF ... In addition, we obtained an integrated spectrum of the galaxy ...