While we have plenty of spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, these are only the most common types of galaxies out there. There are still others, like elliptical or irregular galaxies.

There are three main types of galaxies: elliptical, spiral and irregular. The largest galaxies are called elliptical because they look like big globes of light emitted from a multitude of stars.

Quasars are the most luminous type of active galaxy. They emit light across the electromagnetic spectrum, produce powerful ...

"The large volume of data from Rubin will give us a sample of all kinds of Type Ia supernovas at a range of distances and in ...

The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a supernova-hosting galaxy located about 600 million light-years ...

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...

Based on what scientists thought they knew about fast radio bursts, referred to in astronomy as FRBs, this type of galaxy should not contain the kind of star long thought to produce such bursts.