"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

In this special Hubble image 23 years in the making, the sparkling spiral galaxy UGC 10043 reveals the secrets of its ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the ...

Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

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

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Using the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach spotted an unusual spiral galaxy quasar with a visible jet. This calls into ...

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The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

"It's extremely rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole that is more than 400 million times the mass of the Sun -- which is pretty big -- plus young ...