Close to the white dot at the heart of the galaxy is a cloud of neon purple, which represents hot gas detected by Chandra. Toward the upper left of NGC 6872 is a second spiral galaxy which smaller ...

The Priority Mail 'Spiral Galaxy' and Priority Mail Express 'Star Cluster' stamps are now available in panes of four at post ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

But astronomers scrutinizing this particular Hubble image found the central galaxy actually sports a swirl of spiral arms seemingly unruffled by any such merger, raising new questions about what ...

An international team of astronomers recently made a major discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). They identified a giant grand-design spiral galaxy, named Zhúlóng, which could well be ...

New U.S. Postal Service stamps released last week feature images captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

JWST has spotted a huge, ultramassive galaxy as it appeared 12.8 billion years ago, so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design ...

"It's extremely rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole that is more than 400 million times the mass of the sun—which is pretty big—plus young jets ...