An elliptical galaxy (left) ... The Mars Express just got up close and personal with Phobos The Mars Express just got up close and personal with Phobos. By Laura Baisas.

The Sombrero Galaxy, also called M104 or NGC 4594, is about 28 million light-years from our planet in the constellation Virgo. It is so named because the halo surrounding its disc is unusually ...

If you ever get out away from city lights and just stare up at the night sky, you might start noticing more than just the pinpricks of lights of individual stars. You may see smudges of light acros… ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of, NGC 474, an elliptical galaxy that's 2.5 times larger than our Milky Way.

The idea is that these elliptical galaxies arrive at their final shape through collisions across the ages of the ... Famous Dark Streaks On Mars May Not Be What We Were Hoping For. 23 hours ago. 19.

A view of the spiral galaxy NGC 3982, as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Galaxies come in many different variations, but astronomers classify them into four main types: spiral, elliptical ...

When NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of an elliptical galaxy, it caught something else in the frame: A bright, red arc of light wrapped around it.. That glowing curve isn't the ...

With their winding and buff arms made up of billions of stars, spiral galaxies offer some of the beautiful images of the universe. Our own Milky Way galaxy is a spiral galaxy, yet these types of ...

Toft worked on the premise that these progenitor elliptical galaxies formed quickly in the universe before something shut off their star formation. Then, over the next 10 billion or so years, ...