Despite it’s comparative size to our star, it’s still the least massive object ever detected using gravitational lensing.

Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...

Hubble has captured a striking new image of NGC 2775, a galaxy that defies easy classification. Blending features of spirals, ellipticals, and lenticulars, its puzzling structure may be the result of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of interacting elliptical and spiral galaxies known as Arp 107. Credit: ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other. An elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy appear as one celestial body as a ...

The vastness of space allows for a huge variety of structures to pop up all over the place. Even things we think of as one-and-done objects—like galaxies—come in quite a few shapes and sizes. Follow ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into the chaotic nature of early universe galaxies, ...

The dark object has a mass a million times greater than our sun's is located 10 billion light-years away and has no stars.

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...

Researchers suggest the universe's background radiation has been overestimated, potentially challenging the standard model of cosmology and our understanding of early galaxy formation. Space, time and ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...