Hands up all the bookworms! How well do you think you know your literature? Well, here’s a quick test: presented below are ...

A variety of new businesses opened in the Fox Valley in April, including a new fast-food chicken place, a nail salon, a ...

Rather than solid arms, spiral galaxies may show density waves—regions where matter slows down and bunches up, like cars in ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1559. It is about 35 million light ...

Why it's so special: What if a galaxy had only one spiral arm? Our solar system resides on the outskirts of one of the Milky ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...

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 ...

Many of these stars are massive, luminous and blue, giving the spiral arms their characteristic azure hue. Because we’re inside the galaxy, mapping it is difficult, so many details of its ...

Nevertheless, a three-minute exposure of the Whirlpool Galaxy clearly showed its spiral arms and its dwarf companion galaxy, NGC 5195, and even strong hints of the bridge of gas and stars — a ...

The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides important answers to the question of how the first galaxies were able to ...