Astronomers have investigated three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies that are located in a region of space far away from the ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

While we have plenty of spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, these are only the most common types of galaxies out there. There are still others, like elliptical or irregular galaxies.

A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark ...

These galaxies are thought to be the most common in the nearby Universe and might be the types of galaxies where life can develop given the nature of their formation history. However, astronomers ...

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the unusual Antlia Cluster.

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies are the faintest type of galaxy in the universe. Typically containing just a few hundred to a thousand stars—compared with the hundreds of billions that make up the ...

The John Drescher Planetarium will also focus on the moon's "seas" and the different types of galaxies that populate the ...