In research published today, Australian scientists have taken a critical step towards understanding why different types of galaxies exist throughout the universe. The research, made possible by ...

Galaxies are collections of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter throughout the universe. Their size and scale can vary considerably. The Milky Way in which we live has 200 billion stars, which puts it ...

A radio galaxy is a type of galaxy with giant regions of radio emissions that reach far beyond its visible structure. We explore them in more detail here. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has peered through cosmic dust to reveal new details and a stunning image of a rare type of galaxy. The space observatory's latest image shows the Cartwheel galaxy, a ...

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Ring galaxies are some of the rarest galaxies found throughout our universe, and for years scientists have scratched their heads, trying to figure out exactly how these galaxies came to be. According ...

The ESA's Euclid space telescope has been in space for just over a year, investigating some of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos. By observing cosmic structures up to a distance of 10 billion ...

Edwin Hubble's 1923 identification of a Cepheid variable in the Andromeda "nebula" (M31) demonstrated its extragalactic status and vastly expanded the understanding of the universe's scale beyond the ...

The giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1052 (at left) dominates the cluster it's a part of, though many other large galaxies are present, such as the giant spiral NGC 1042. Nearby to these galaxies are small ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Dive into the dazzling depths of the universe with this galaxy-themed trivia quiz that spans cosmic facts, mysterious ...