New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, ...

The six curiosities that Brown and Batygin identified have elongated elliptical orbits whose perihelia (their ... distance from just outside Neptune's orbit to all the way in to Uranus and even ...

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

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

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

Our galaxy, while not small, isn't nearly as big as Andromeda. We harbor some 100 to 400 billion stars. One day, however, the two galaxies may collide, forming a giant, egg-shaped elliptical galaxy.

"Because it's such a large supermassive black hole at the center, we'd predicted we'd see an elliptical galaxy." The spiral host galaxy, a quasar named J0742+2704, was discovered emanating a ...

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On Jan. 13, the sun in Capricorn will meet with Uranus retrograde in Taurus in an exhilarating trine, which could shake things up in a big way. This exhilarating aspect (happening at the midpoint ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

"Andromeda looks like a transitional type of galaxy that's between a star-forming spiral and a sort of elliptical galaxy dominated by aging red stars," said Weisz. "We can tell it's got this big ...