Located in the constellation Leo, spiral galaxy NGC 3370 has long been a favorite among astronomers. NGC 3370 is part of a ...

NGC 7496, a dusty barred spiral galaxy located 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus, harbors a ravenous ...

US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera has captured imagery of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512 and its neighbor ...

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A massive spiral galaxy known as J2345-0449 emits powerful radio jets more than 5 million ...

November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are ...

NGC 6951 shines 70 million light-years away, its spiral arms feeding a brilliant central starburst ring bursting with new stars. This cosmic powerhouse reveals how bars shape galaxies and sustain ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) hasn't yet begun its much-anticipated Legacy Survey of Space and Time. But it saw its first ...

We measure the “warmness” of the dark matter, i.e. the comoving root-mean-square thermal velocity v hrms (1) , with nearly 3000 spiral galaxy rotation curves in the ...