Galaxies have an overall internal motion called disk velocity. It’s how gas, dust, and stars move around the galactic center.

When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are the same. Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star ...

Spiral galaxies can be further divided into two groups: normal spirals and barred spirals. In barred spirals, a bar of stars ...

The highly inclined barred spiral M108 in Ursa Major is sometimes called the Surfboard Galaxy. It's not to be missed.

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

While the Triangulum galaxy’s gravitational influence conspired to bring the Milky Way and Andromeda together, the LMC had a repellent effect. And when all four danced together, the odds of an ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...