Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

Scientists' simulation of the Supergalatic Plane show how collisions in dense star neighborhoods can smooth out swirling galaxies.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 4694, a galaxy that possesses unusual properties that complicate its classification.

The majority of the thousands of galaxies we’ve discovered out in the universe fit into relatively well-defined categories: spiral galaxies like our Milky Way, elliptical galaxies which are long ...

Astronomers have created a 3D map of the massive elliptical galaxy Messier 87 and gotten a better estimate of the mass of its central supermassive black hole.

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to produce these types of signals.

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy.

The telescope also picks up Jupiter’s faint rings, which are only one-millionth the brightness of Jupiter itself, against a backdrop of even fainter and farther galaxies.

What happens when you build the largest digital camera on Earth, capable of capturing 3.2 gigapixel images, and aim it at the depths of space from a remote Chilean mountaintop? You get results like ...

A new supercomputer simulation reveals why spiral galaxies like our Milky Way are strikingly scarce in our pocket of the universe.

The galaxy is at least 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo and appears to be perfectly spherical, which is unusual for elliptical galaxies that tend to be egg shaped.

New dynamical computer models show that life here on Earth was likely given a push and a pull from our own planet Jupiter. Our farflung gas giant has enough gravitational oomph to largely dictate ...