The vastness of space allows for a huge variety of structures to pop up all over the place. Even things we think of as one-and-done objects—like galaxies—come in quite a few shapes and sizes. Follow ...

The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 Venus spacecraft is set to make a somewhat delayed reappearance as it slams into the Earth in the next few weeks. Between 1961 and 1984, the Soviet Union launched ...

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical ...

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An unusual elliptical galaxy with a history of absorbing smaller galaxies appears to be approaching its next target. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

There's an optical illusion in this Hubble Space Telescope image. Credit: ESA / NASA / H. Nayyeri / L. Marchetti / J. Lowenthal When NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of an elliptical ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that's hard to categorize. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775, which lies 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab ...