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.

It has a smooth-looking, armless shape, like an elliptical galaxy, and a disk with a low star-formation rate. However, it has relatively younger and newer stars forming in its central region.

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.

This annotated view of the surroundings of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5018 shows many of the galaxy's neighbors. ... See the crescent moon dance with Mars and the bright star Regulus this weekend.

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 ...

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, ...