The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

Captured by the VST, NGC 3640 reveals a turbulent history of cosmic cannibalism, but its current companion, NGC 3641, remains ...

To add to the excitement, the message states that this device will be 'light years' ahead. "Our brand new Galaxy smartphone is almost here," the email confirms. "Our next category defining smartphone.

The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides ...

In the fourth verse, “What has come into being in him was life, life that was the light of men,” we see the emergence of human life, the emphasis being, once again, that Jesus himself is the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a mind-blowing deep-field image of a tiny sliver of the sky, revealing ...

The "galaxy lies around 30 million light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis," according to the Hubble team. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick | mash mix by Space.com Music ...

Located around 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy that, alongside its neighbor the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), is gravitationally bound to our ...

The research group's impressive image of a galaxy cluster more than 6 billion light years away will be showcased as the European Space Agency's (ESA) picture of the month from April 29.

Located approximately 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo, the Sombrero Galaxy, also known as Messier 104, is viewed nearly edge-on by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The NASA New Horizons spacecraft’s extensive observations of Lyman-alpha emissions have resulted in the first-ever map from the galaxy at this important ultraviolet ... the Lyman-alpha background ...