WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight ...

Lying some 85 million light years away, tucked deep within the Ursa Major constellation, lies the galaxy NGC 2814. Unlike the eye-catching, spiral-shaped family of galaxies (of which the Milky Way is ...

This striking pair is an elliptical galaxy NGC 541 and an unusual star-forming, irregular dwarf galaxy known as Minkowski’s Object (the bluish object to the lower left of NGC 541). Elliptical galaxies ...

Just in time for Santa's arrival, NASA has shared an image of a galaxy that looks just like what it describes as a "sparkling snow globe." The galaxy, named UGC 8091, is situated around 7 million ...

We might be very wrong about the shape of our galaxy. As Space.com notes, astronomers believe that the majority of known galaxies generally fall into one of three categories: elliptical, irregular, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first picture released to the public showed off thousands of galaxies. At first glance, the pinpoints of light shining in the blackness of space look like little stars ...