The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question ...

while elliptical galaxies like M87 sit at the other. Bridging the gap between the two are elongated sphere-shaped galaxies, lacking spiral arms, called lenticular galaxies. But what this widely ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

A new study challenges predictions our home galaxy the Milky Way will crash into the Andromeda galaxy in 5 billion years.

Since galaxies have so many different varieties of shape within the big three (elliptical, spiral, and dwarf), Masters says Galaxy Zoo continues to be important in assisting with the ...

Through these mergers, spiral galaxies turn into elliptical galaxies, egg-shaped galaxies without the spiral arms, which leads to the growth of supermassive black holes. (These black holes live up ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might have heard that galaxies come in different types, classified based on their shapes. There are elliptical galaxies, which are smooth and featureless ...

A photo of the huge elliptical galaxy M87 [left] is compared to its three-dimensional shape as gleaned from meticulous observations made with the Hubble and Keck telescopes [right]. Because the ...

These galaxies grow by eating other ones, both large and small, that venture too close to the cluster core, so the elliptical shape itself may be caused in part by this cannibalism process.

"This shocking result means that we now need to revisit the very foundations of everything we know about cosmology," said the reseachers.

It doesn’t have the reaching arms of a spiral galaxy nor the long shape of an elliptical, but it has characteristics of both. It has thousands of bright stars with areas of busy star formation ...