Every time this doomed star plunges through a supermassive black hole's accretion disk, it loses orbital energy and triggers ...

The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

Discover why we've given the ZWO Seestar S30 smart telescope nearly top marks in our latest smart telescope review.

Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found "Space Jaws." Lurking 600 million ...

Arp 184’s single broad arm hints at a unique past, earning it a place in a famous catalog of peculiar galaxies.

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...

NASA and the European Space Agency recently shared an image of an oddly shaped spiral galaxy located about 190 million ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have captured amazing views of spiral galaxy NGC 2566. Credit: ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures stunning imagery of barred spiral galaxy UGC 678. The galaxy is located about 260 million ...

The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronauts Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from ...

A beautiful but skewed spiral galaxy dazzles in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy, called Arp 184 or NGC ...

A distant and dazzling spiral galaxy, Arp 184 (NGC 1961), captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals a stunningly ...