In this special Hubble image 23 years in the making, the sparkling spiral galaxy UGC 10043 reveals the secrets of its ...

Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

Messier 81, a grand design spiral galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Willner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) / Wikimedia Commons The Webb Space ...

A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, known as NGC 5643, is located roughly 40 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lupus.

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...

Among the important findings is the discovery of very young galaxies that already looked like their more senior counterparts in the local universe, and a recent study has shown a spiral galaxy ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new grand-design spiral galaxy as part of the PANORAMIC survey. The newfound galaxy, named ...

JWST has spotted a huge, ultramassive galaxy as it appeared 12.8 billion years ago, so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design ...