New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, ...

The six curiosities that Brown and Batygin identified have elongated elliptical orbits whose perihelia (their ... within the group known as Centaurs (asteroids that orbit between Jupiter and Neptune) ...

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

"Clearly there is something interesting going on." The Hubble Space Telescope image you see above is from last year, and it showcases several galaxies that inhabit a pocket of our universe roughly ...

One day, however, the two galaxies may collide, forming a giant, egg-shaped elliptical galaxy. But that great merger won't happen for billions of years. Mark is an award-winning journalist and the ...

Andromeda is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way. And it is getting closer, as the two will merge in several billion years. It has been an object of study for centuries, but we have never ...

Star formation is usually nearly non-existent in large elliptical galaxies, which represent the final stage in galaxy evolution. Unlike spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, with their distinct ...

These combined efforts have revealed a dynamic menagerie of rarer galaxy types within the cluster. The Antlia Cluster is dominated by two massive elliptical galaxies—NGC 3268 and NGC 3258.

Update, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025: This article has been updated with details on the Galaxy S25 chipset and performance implications. Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event in January 2024 saw the launch ...