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

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and watch a close pairing of two naked-eye planets: Venus and Saturn. The ...

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 ...

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

It's possible that Venus and Earth once simultaneously existed as pleasant worlds hosting mild temperatures and oceans. Then, something went awry. In new research, planetary scientists simulated ...

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.

Credit: ESO/José Francisco Salgado, EHT Collaboration With respect to structure, there are three types of galaxies: spiral, elliptical, and irregular. Scientists also classify galaxies according ...

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 ...