Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have imaged a surprisingly merry-looking collision between galaxies. The ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest strongly rotating galaxy ever seen that's well-organized rather than chaotic, ...

Experts project that our very own Milky Way will eventually collide with the nearby Andromeda galaxy, a process that'll ...

Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. Several hundred million years ago, a smallish ...

RIT researchers propose that the outer gas disk of spiral galaxies could be teeming with black holes that emit gravitational waves as they collide. Shown here is the Southern Pinwheel galaxy seen ...

Seen on a diagonal tilt, the galaxy appears to be swinging like a pendulum through space. A dazzling new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a bright spiral galaxy on a diagonal tilt ...

Up until recently, theorists have believed a galaxy as elegant as the Milky Way — having a rotating disk and spiral arms, for example — would require billions of years of evolution.

This collision helped give NGC 4694 its peculiar shape and star-forming activity that classify it as a lenticular galaxy. Lenticular galaxies lack the unmistakable arms of a spiral, but still have ...

This face-on flocculent — meaning that it has a fluffy or patchy appearance — spiral glows at magnitude 9.0, which lands it on the top 40 chart for brightest galaxies. Indeed, even observers ...

A research team led by Assistant Professor Makoto Miyoshi of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has independently re-analyzed observation data of the supermassive black hole at ...