The galaxy, named Kks3, is a dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy, lacking features like the spiral arms found in our Galaxy. It is located in the southern constellation Hydrus, approximately 7 million light-years away, and has a stellar mass about 1/10,000 of Milky Way’s. DSph galaxies like Kks3 have an

Spiral galaxies like our Milky Way (a barred spiral galaxy) are nothing special--in fact, they're the most common type of galaxy. But astronomers are buzzing about the recent discovery of a very unusual spiral galaxy that sports big jets of subatomic particles that stream outward at nearly the

If you took a photo of our Milky Way Galaxy today from a distance, it would show a spiral galaxy with a bright, central bar of dense star populations. The Sun would be located outside this bar near one of the spiral arms composed of stars and interstellar dust; beyond the visible galaxy would be a

Astronomers recently spotted seven galaxies that appeared around 13.1 billion years ago - 700 million years after the Big Bang. Where the galaxies came from initially confused the experts because they seemed to appear almost out of nowhere, very rapidly. But now the team behind the observations

 This is an image of a massive galaxy cluster that helped astronomers view one of the most distant and faintest galaxies ever studied. The Hubble Space Telescope might be 24 years old, but it's still making discoveries that are changing the way we see and understand our universe. Hubble's latest