Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have a flat disk, winding spiral arms and ongoing star formation. Ellipticals ...

One of the most spectacular galaxies in Earth's sky is the subject of a new image release to help celebrate 35 years of Hubble operations. The Sombrero Galaxy (Messier 104), located some 31 million ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images A hundred years ago ...

Hubble has turned its sharp gaze on a compact, intensely blue dwarf galaxy about 13 million light years away, revealing a crowded nursery where massive stars are being forged at a furious pace. The ...

Astronomers combined images from the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope to create the highest-resolution image of two galaxies, IC 2163 on left and NGC 2207, on the verge of merging ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy -- shot ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...