"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii ...

A family portrait of the Andromeda galaxy and its orbiting dwarf satellites raises questions about how galaxies evolve.

"Everything scattered in the Andromeda system is very asymmetric and perturbed. It does appear that something significant ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

A major discovery on the outskirts of Andromeda is shaking up our understanding of galactic evolution. Astronomers have found ...

A stunning Hubble image showcases a spiral galaxy seemingly intertwined with a nearby star—but looks can be deceiving! This ...

Astronomers have found an unexpectedly bright and chemically complex galaxy from the first 300 million years of the ...

In 1929, an astronomer named Edwin Hubble found that every single galaxy ... the simplest explanation was that every galaxy was moving away from us. More distant galaxies appear redder due to ...

Related: The Andromeda Galaxy glows rosy red in gorgeous new Hubble Telescope image Starting in late 2019, Hubble spent two years cataloging images — as well as measurements of the locations and ...

Still, the new Hubble observations may suggest otherwise. So, while it is still possible that a solution could be found under ... in our own galaxy to extrapolate more generally to the other ...