Along with a number of neighbouring galaxies — including our closest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy — it forms what is referred to as the “Local Group” of galaxies, a galactic agglomeration ...

At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...

Neptune will be visible through binoculars ... Milky Way some 4.5 billion years from now to form an even larger elliptical galaxy. During spring, the Andromeda galaxy is best viewed in the hours ...

Neptune will be visible through binoculars or a telescope ... and merge with the Milky Way some 4.5 billion years from now to form an even larger elliptical galaxy. During spring, the Andromeda galaxy ...

Some of the galaxies in this image are 13.1 billion years old, captured as they appeared when the universe had only just cooled enough to allow star formation. 2. Jupiter ...

Will the Universe end in a Big Freeze, a Big Rip – or something even stranger? Take a look into the distant future with ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

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. And the image ...

Researchers from the universities of Bonn, Prague, and Nanjing propose a different view of the formation of elliptical galaxies. Their study, published in Nuclear Physics B, suggests that the ...

These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our system. This discovery paves the way for future ...