"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of interacting galaxies Arp 142. Arp 142 consists of a distorted ...

You have the spirals like the Milky Way and Andromeda, the irregular galaxies, and the elliptical galaxies. This latter group tends to have the most massive and usually most aged population of stars.

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the ...

NSF NOIRLab has begun the New Year by unveiling a remarkable deep-space image of the Antlia Cluster, including hundreds of ...

Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars. However, it is still unclear what has ...

Using the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), astronomers from Italy and Germany have observed a group of galaxies designated NGC ...

From the Andromeda Galaxy to the Magellanic clouds, check out these 7 vibrant images of galaxies nearest to the Milky Way ...