The James Webb Space Telescope's s MIRI and NIRCam instruments have captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 2090. The ...

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 ...

so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design spiral. The galaxy's name is Zhúlóng, after the Torch Dragon of Chinese myth, and its ...

But astronomers scrutinizing this particular Hubble image found the central galaxy actually sports a swirl of spiral arms seemingly unruffled by any such merger, raising new questions about what ...

The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new set of stamps celebrating the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space ...

"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 ...

While we have plenty of spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way ... But only 1 out of 10,000 falls into this super rare category, Siegel says. In an article published on Big Think, Siegel outlines ...

Explore the breathtaking beauty of the cosmos with seven incredible images of star clusters and galaxies captured by NASA.

Using the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach spotted an unusual spiral galaxy quasar with a visible jet. This calls into question the mechanisms at play in the formation of quasar jets.