Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

"It has a striking evolved morphology: a quiescent-like classical bulge + star-forming stellar disk + grand-design spiral ...

NSF NOIRLab rings in the New Year with a glittering galaxyscape captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

The galaxy NGC 5084 has been known for centuries. It was first cataloged by William Herschel in 1785, and has been well ...

Dwarf irregular galaxy, UGC 8091: The dwarf galaxy is approximately 7 million light-years from Earth in the constellation ...

The S0 lenticular galaxy NGC 1266 is unremarkable when observed in optical light (left, grayscale and black contours) very much an example of a "red and dead" galaxy but becomes alive and violent ...