A recent study on the Milky Way's center also traces a family of stars back to an extremely ancient galactic merger. The ...

It's one of the few known spiral galaxies with a central bulge that extends from its disk at a right angle.

Hubble captured NGC 4698, a strange spiral galaxy whose stars and gas rotate at right angles, revealing clues to a chaotic past.

Astronomers have identified 47 candidate dwarf galaxies around three galaxies located beyond the Local Group. The discovery, ...

Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than 58,000 ...

Dwarf galaxies—with a mass equal to about a billion suns, but often considerably less—are the most abundant in the universe.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's conception of the James Webb Space Telescope observing the cosmos 1 million miles from Earth. The far outskirts of our ...

Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret. This galaxy is NGC 4698, and it lies about 55 million light-years away in ...

A gorgeous new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a bustling region of star formation at the distant edge of the Milky Way. Called, dramatically enough, the Extreme Outer Galaxy, this ...

An artist's conception of the James Webb Space Telescope observing the cosmos 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA-GSFC / Adriana M. Gutierrez (CI Lab) The far outskirts of our galaxy are teeming ...