This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Galaxy NGC 4535 is truly a stunning sight and is located in the constellation of Virgo, around 50 million light-years from ...

New U.S. Postal Service stamps released last week feature images captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

The two new stamps celebrate America's continued exploration of deep space with extremely high-definition images captured by ...

This galaxy, located at a photometric redshift of about 5.2, has a mass comparable to that of the Milky Way. Zhúlóng stands out for its well-defined spiral arms, extending over 62,000 light-years, and ...

"It's extremely rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole that ... as the material from two or more galaxies mashes together, and heated gas is funneled ...

But astronomers scrutinizing this particular Hubble image found the central galaxy actually sports a swirl of spiral arms seemingly unruffled ... on" within just two decades.

January 22, 2025 - Two new Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express stamps ... Emerging from the central blue haze are the ...