The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...

Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...

Explore the UGC 10214, the Tadpole Galaxy, a faint, peculiar spiral galaxy in Draco with a dramatic tidal tail and active star formation — an elusive but rewarding target for deep-sky observers ...

The XRISM science team, including members of Nagoya University, has explained how galaxy clusters maintain their heat despite emitting X-rays, which typically have a cooling effect on the hot gas ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

The Andromeda galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy to our own, the Milky Way galaxy. “Close” may be deceiving, though, because Andromeda is over 2 million light years away!

The Milky Way will become increasingly visible near the end of May because of the moon’s changing phases. Over the next few days, the moon will undergo its waning crescent phase, leaving only a small ...