The clashing galaxies NGC 4568 (bottom) and NGC 4567 (top) as seen by the Gemini North telescope in Hawai‘i A 100-year-old mystery surrounding the "shape-shifting" nature of some galaxies has been ...

A shot of the spiral-shaped light in the sky above Hawaii captured Jan. 18 by the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera on Mauna Kea. An eerily-perfect "whirlpool" of light in the shape of a spiral galaxy briefly ...

Our Milky Way galaxy has an elegant spiral shape with long arms filled with stars, but exactly how it took this form has long puzzled scientists. New observations of another galaxy are shedding light ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Did you see the really cool, spiral-shaped cloud hovering along the Front Range early Wednesday afternoon? It was quite the talker on social media and while it's hard to say what ...

Galaxies in the universe come in all shapes and sizes. Some are giant spheres of stars many times larger than the Milky Way. Others are flattened disks, with pancakelike stellar swirls orbiting a ...

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is known for its famous, sparkly, spiral. But we aren’t the only ones with a glittery arm. Known as spiral galaxies, this class of galaxy is known to make up an ...