Scientists' simulation of the Supergalatic Plane show how collisions in dense star neighborhoods can smooth out swirling galaxies.

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.

Largest Elliptical Galaxies Might Have Formed In Incredible Starburst Events Some galaxies are born spherical, others become it.

This reclassified the Sombrero from a "flat disk" galaxy to an elliptical galaxy with a flat disk inside of it.

Galaxies come in many different variations, but astronomers classify them into four main types: spiral, elliptical, irregular and peculiar.

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 ...

Its thousands of galaxies are like a swarm of bees, buzzing around a giant core of enormous elliptical galaxies ... of Taurus (the celestial Bull), while the fainter is the planet Mars. During April, ...

About 72 percent of the galaxies we’ve studied are spiral, like ours, but there are two other types of galaxies out there that we’ve observed. Elliptical galaxies are, well, elliptical in shape.

There are dozens of enormous armless galaxy clusters called elliptical galaxies in the Plane, but not nearly as many disk-shaped galaxies with spiral arms.

About 72 percent of the galaxies we’ve studied are spiral, like ours, but there are two other types of galaxies out there that we’ve observed. Elliptical galaxies are, well, elliptical in shape.