The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 4694, a galaxy that possesses unusual properties that complicate its classification. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Do you have an Internet connection, some free time and a penchant for staring off into space? Then Galaxy Zoo needs you. Among the most ambitious and successful online “citizen science” projects to ...

A team of international astronomers have discovered a galaxy that has changed classification due to unique activity within its core. The galaxy, named PBC J2333.9-2343, was previously classified as a ...

Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by the Subaru Telescope, and have achieved a very high accuracy for finding ...

Euclid’s first deep-field survey has captured 26 million galaxies, some over 10 billion light-years away, offering a preview of its mission to chart a third of the sky in stunning detail. AI and ...

MUSE survey, an international team of astronomers has inspected a nuclear star cluster of the nearby large spiral galaxy ...

The vastness of space allows for a huge variety of structures to pop up all over the place. Even things we think of as one-and-done objects—like galaxies—come in quite a few shapes and sizes. Follow ...

Astronomers have spotted a pair of galaxies in the act of merging 12.8 billion years ago. The characteristics of these galaxies indicate that the merger will form a monster galaxy, one of the ...

Hubble has just dropped more galactic eye candy! From its vantage point in low-Earth orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope recently captured an intricate portrait of the NGC 3430 galaxy, a classic spiral ...

Galaxy mergers activate supermassive black holes, Euclid data shows, revealing more AGN in merging systems and new insights into galaxy evolution ...