Astronomers classify galaxy NGC 1300 as a barred spiral because its arms do not swirl into the ... This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ...

Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a collision between two galaxies that appears to have created a beaming smile in ...

Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral a happier outlook thanks to the two bright “eyes” ...

NASA’ s Hubble Space Telescope provides breathtaking views of galaxies like NGC 5668 and NGC 5033, illustrating rapid star ...

Observing the M104 Galaxy, also known as the Sombrero Galaxy, offers a glimpse into the unique characteristics of spiral ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo named NGC 5668.

The Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy, has been extensively studied by NASA. Infrared images illustrate polarized dust, while ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor, glows brightly in a new Hubble Space Telescope image with ...

M33 is known to be a hotbed of star birth, forming stars at a rate 10 times higher than the average of its neighbor Andromeda ...

Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space — so far that the Milky Way likely ...

Space is really really big. Planet Earth is located in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way (called the Orion Arm) which lies about two-thirds of the way out from the center of the galaxy. We know ...