Galaxies have an overall internal motion called disk velocity. It’s how gas, dust, and stars move around the galactic center.

Some ten million light-years away from Earth sits a brilliant spiral galaxy officially called NGC 253 but known by many ...

For over a century, astronomers have marveled at the beauty and complexity of spiral galaxies, which feature arms covered in ...

Astronomers have uncovered a remarkable cosmic relic - a galaxy named KiDS J0842+0059, located three billion light-years from ...

The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

"In the Milky Way, we can achieve extremely high resolution, but we lack a global view since we're inside it. For more distant galaxies, we can get a global view, but not the fine detail.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed Herbig-Haro 49/50, an outflow from a nearby still-forming star, in high-resolution near- and mid-infrared light. The intricate features of the outflow, ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...

In a dense galaxy cluster, NGC 4858 shows how cosmic winds strip gas, spark new stars, and shape stunning jellyfish-like features.

The high resolution images that Webb has provided has allowed the researchers to peer through the gas and dust and into the heart of the galaxies. Tech. Entertainment. Science.

The USPS will celebrate the continued exploration of deep space with an extremely high-definition image of a spiral galaxy 32 million light years from Earth -- an image that will be affixed to a new ...

Scientists spot high-speed galaxy collision 11 billion light-years away: 'We hence call this system the cosmic joust' NASA diagnoses fracture in a 'huge cosmic bone' using X-ray observatory ...