NASA and the European Space Agency's (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million light-years away, that ...

This serene spiral galaxy hides a cataclysmic past. The galaxy IC 758, shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, is situated 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our ...

A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, known as NGC 5643, is ...

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 ...

A Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4858, showing the stellar tendrils extending north from the barred spiral disk. The cold molecular gas in NGC 4858, seen by the ALMA radio telescope with its ...

The Hubble Space Telescope observes about one percent of a full moon, and JWST observes about 75 percent of the moon’s disk. Each Rubin Observatory image captures an area about 45 times the size ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

UGC 10214, also known as the Tadpole Galaxy, is a barred spiral galaxy with a 280,000 light-year long tidal tail resulting from galactic interaction. Its faint magnitude (14.4) and small apparent ...

A section of the new view of the Sculptor galaxy, featuring thousands of colors ESO Some ten million light-years away from Earth sits a brilliant spiral galaxy officially called NGC 253 but known ...

Astronomers studied 10,000 stars in Hubble pictures to make this composite image and to learn about the evolution of the Milky Way galaxy. Light from our own galaxy is the most recently produced ...