A fter only one year of operations, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission has begun to unravel the mystery of why ...

We might be very wrong about the shape of our galaxy. As Space.com notes, astronomers believe that the majority of known galaxies generally fall into one of three categories: elliptical, irregular, ...

In its first year of full operations, the Euclid space telescope has quietly built one of the most ambitious maps of the ...

Earth’s galactic home used to have a different shape. Thanks to a trove of images from heritage space telescopes, astronomers are learning more about the Milky Way’s past, and its future. Though no ...

This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a group of three galaxies that are so close together that they have been given one collective name: NGC 7764A. When galaxies come close together ...

Galaxies by intermittent ring releases of stellar seeds from two attached galactic seeds (double disc galaxy, Type 3–1). (a) no rotation of the two galactic seeds Ω1.1 = 0, (b) —(e) rotation by Ω1.1 = ...

A team of astronomers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has released new data from an ...

A collage of nine by five squares containing galaxies of many different shapes and viewed in different orientations. Photo Courtesy of ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA March 19 (UPI) --The European ...

Scientists have reported something unexpected about the distinct populations of stars that make up the Triangulum galaxy: In this satellite galaxy, a close companion of the much larger Andromeda ...

ESO 415-19 is a galaxy with a past, but we’re not here to judge. At some point in its history, ESO 415-19 had a close encounter with another galaxy, and it’s never been the same since. The gravity ...

The standard cosmology can answer almost nothing about how the structure of a galaxy is formed. It expects a supermassive black hole at the center and dark matter in the halo to explain the ...

Astronomers have been gazing at the Triangulum galaxy for centuries. But they’ve never seen it quite like this. On Jan. 11 at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, a team ...