A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

According to the standard method of classifying the Hubble sequence, galaxies usually fall into one of four categories: ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope recently released a chilling view of two spiral galaxies, IC ...

This process won't be complete for many millions of years — until then, Queen Berenice II will have to suffer the knots in ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose interactions have caused knots to form in the "queen's hair." The galactic duo, formally known as MCG+05-31-045, is located 390 ...

But ring galaxies don't fit into these neat categories. This has led some researchers and citizen scientists to argue that the Hubble sequence — the most widely used method of categorizing ...