In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

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

As reported in a yet-to-be peer-reviewed paper, this is the most distant galaxy with a bulge, disk, and spiral arms known to date. The bulge is believed to form first and for that reason ...