The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy UGC 2890. The "galaxy lies around 30 million light-years ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Andre van der Hoeven (Netherlands) combined different datasets in the archives of the Hubble ...

LARAMIE – Unless one is a scientist or a teacher of the sciences, it would be understandable if a person may not be familiar with spiral galaxies. Danny Dale, a professor of physics and astronomy and ...

Our Milky Way galaxy has an elegant spiral shape with long arms filled with stars, but exactly how it took this form has long puzzled scientists. New observations of another galaxy are shedding light ...

In a discovery that could reshape our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve, astronomers have identified the most distant spiral galaxy candidate ever observed—a vast, mature system that ...

In the vast darkness of the early universe, a spiral of light named Zhúlóng offers a new glimpse into cosmic history. This galaxy, shaped like our Milky Way, formed just a billion years after the Big ...

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May's latest book explores the history, mystery and evolution of galaxies in a way never tried ...

Sur­veys showed that most disk-shaped galaxies possessed winding spiral arms where young stars, gas, and dust were concentrated. Astronomers assumed our galaxy was a ­spiral too. In the 1950s, radio ...

Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher has captured a magnificent view of the Triangulum spiral galaxy bursting with the light of newly formed stars some three million light-years from Earth. Brecher's ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new ...