Located 15,000 light-years away in a region of the Milky Way brimming with stars, gas and dust, this object could be a highly magnetized dead star like a neutron or white dwarf, Curtin University’s ...

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, visible to the naked eye and set to merge ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

Memorial day weekend promises stunning space views. Here’s how to catch a breathtaking view of the Milky Way in Arizona this month ...

Using combined observations from ground-based telescopes over nearly four years, the researchers saw the distant galactic ...

Using observations made with the Very Large Telescope and the ALMA telescope in Chile, the astronomers determined that the ...

Astronomers watched as a galaxy with the forgettable name SDSS1335+0728 suddenly sprang to life when its massive black hole ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar ...

NGC 3596 is a typical spiral galaxy, other than its straight-on orientation when viewed from Earth. The bright arms of NGC 3596 are comprised of stars, gas and dust. It is that area where the most ...

“As stars, gas and dust orbit within a galaxy’s disc, they pass in and out of the spiral arms. Much like cars moving through a traffic jam, these materials slow down and bunch up as they enter ...

showcasing the galaxy’s neatly wound spiral arms,” the Hubble astronomers said in a statement. “The bright arms mark where the galaxy’s stars, gas and dust are concentrated.” “Star formation is also ...