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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1952, astronomers began the first major radio survey of the Milky Way. Astronomers theorized that the galaxy had a spiral ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

Get ready to be amazed by the breathtaking beauty of spiral galaxies! NASA has shared stunning images of these cosmic wonders ...

The ring-shaped clouds around the nebula RCW 120 were detected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in this composite image. The Black Eye Galaxy is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million ...