Webb witnessed a highly ionised gas whose level of energy was too high to come from something like supernovae, making ...

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous galaxy bursting with new star formation. This intermediate ...

It also has dust and clouds of gas held together by gravity. Our view of the Milky Way galaxy is from the edge of the disc. It appears as a flattened spiral ... light-years thick, and weighs ...

NGC 2397, pictured in this image from Hubble, is a classic spiral galaxy with long prominent dust lanes along the edges of its arms, seen as dark patches and streaks silhouetted against the starlight.

Nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy contains something it shouldn't: a supermassive black hole with jets so powerful, the spiral should no longer be stable. J2345-0449—as the ...

To the unaided eye, its translucent clouds are simply beautiful splashes ... By far the most common type of galaxy, spiral galaxies have a bright, dense core of stars collected in a central ...

Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...