Galaxy classification has long been based on their visible appearance, creating well-defined categories. Spiral galaxies like our Milky Way display a flat disk structure with characteristic ...

Astronomers discover the most distant and powerful odd radio circle, reshaping theories about cosmic structures.s ...

A 50-million-light-year-long flow of hydrogen gas has been observed linking two tiny galaxies 50 million light-years away, ...

Packed tightly together like twinkling stellar beehives, these globular clusters are made up of hundreds of thousands of ...

The vastness of space allows for a huge variety of structures to pop up all over the place. Even things we think of as one-and-done objects—like galaxies—come in quite a few shapes and sizes. Follow ...

NGC 6914 lies nearly 6,000 light years from Earth. It sits along the Milky Way’s crowded plane where gas, stars and dust ...