For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large ...

The largest map of the universe, created with data from the James Webb Space Telescope, shows almost 800,000 galaxies crammed ...

Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally thought.

NASA’s space telescopes and missions have captured some of the most stunning images of the universe. From distant galaxies to ...

TIL Creatives Two galaxies, 11 billion light-years away, clash in a never-before-seen "cosmic joust," with one galaxy's quasar blasting powerful radiation at its neighbor, disrupting star formation in ...

Credit: ESA / NASA / H. Nayyeri / L. Marchetti / J. Lowenthal When NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of an elliptical galaxy, it caught something else in the frame: A bright ...

Hubble’s latest snapshot of galaxy NGC 3511 reveals vibrant clouds of gas and young star clusters, shedding light on how stars are born in nearby galaxies. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker NGC ...

Another great example of a distorted galaxy lies in the northern constellation Camelopardalis, the Giraffe. It is NGC 2146, sometimes called the Dusty Hand Galaxy for its unusual appearance.

A century ago Edwin Hubble discovered this ... There’s a bright and highly distorted galaxy in the constellation Pisces, lying some 100 million light-years away. It is NGC 520, and was ...

Our own Milky Way is part of a small galaxy group known as the Local Group, which includes the Andromeda Galaxy and ... When we look very deep into the universe, the galaxies have more irregular ...

Hubble captured this dazzling view of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf galaxy shimmering with clouds of gas that ... to see beyond what human eyes can detect. Using its Wide Field ...

Captured with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 ... just a beautiful visual, but also deep astrophysical insights into the structure and behavior of this galaxy. Unlike what we can observe through ...