"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told reporters on Monday (Jan. 13) at the 245th meeting of the American ...

Not only does it seemingly exist too early in the cosmos to be strongly spinning, the galaxy also shows hints of spiral arms ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

The new image, which was released Jan. 16 by the European Space Agency (ESA), is made up of approximately 600 different fields of view and shows the spiral galaxy "almost edge-on," or tilted 77 ...

"It's extremely rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole that is more than 400 million times the mass of the sun—which is pretty big—plus young jets ...

JWST has spotted a huge, ultramassive galaxy as it appeared 12.8 billion years ago, so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design ...

The twisting cloud appears to be reaching for a spiral galaxy known as ESO 257-19 (PGC ... remnant as well as a pulsar, or a ...

That’s because M101 is a grand spiral galaxy, with arms full of stars ... A cloud of gas and dust expanding into space with a spinning pulsar at its core, we know it was seen by humans because ...

Somewhere in between, humans realized the universe is much larger than our Milky Way — that the spiral nebulas visible ... universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on ...