However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a rare "Einstein ring," revealing two distant galaxies in an optical illusion ...

A beautiful but skewed spiral galaxy dazzles in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy, called Arp 184 or NGC ...

It’s rare these days for astronomers to find a new class of object in the heavens. After all, we’ve been searching the skies ...

Elliptical galaxy NGC 3561B (upper left) and spiral galaxy NGC 3561A (lower right) form a shimmering guitar shape in the ongoing merger known collectively as Arp 105. CREDITS: NASA, ESA and M.

Along with a number of neighbouring galaxies — including our closest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy — it forms what ...

No one knows whether the Sombrero has spiral arms like our Milky Way, or whether it is a more fuzzy and less defined type of galaxy called an elliptical galaxy. Either way, as seen from Earth it ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an awe-inspiring new image of the iconic Sombrero Galaxy, known formally as Messier 104. The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary ...