This vivid new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope showcases the asymmetric spiral galaxy Messier 96, revealing its shining pink rings of newborn stars and the dramatic impact of cosmic ...

From elegant spirals and massive ellipticals to oddball irregulars and barred beauties, here’s how stars reveal a galaxy’s ...

Researchers have long thought that the Milky Way would collide with the Andromeda galaxy in four to five billion years. This scientific illustration depicts Earth's horizon four billion years in the ...

Astronomers confirmed an off-center black hole in a dwarf galaxy. It offers clues to how supermassive black holes may form.

Plus, catch Saturn and Neptune at their brightest; spy the "string of pearls" galaxy; and a close encounter of the moon and Jupiter.

As a massive black hole located 55 million light-years from Earth, the black hole at the center of M87 has a mass equivalent ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

A view of the spiral galaxy NGC 3982, as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Galaxies come in many different variations, but astronomers classify them into four main types: spiral, elliptical, ...