If you ever get out away from city lights and just stare up at the night sky, you might start noticing more than just the pinpricks of lights of individual stars. You may see smudges of light acros… ...

Waukesha, Wis. – Elliptical galaxy M87 is a fascinating astronomical laboratory that sits some 50 million light-years from Earth. ... “See Saturn in prime time ...

These compact elliptical galaxies are fairly rare. Until 2013, only 30 or so had been found, and they were all huddling next to giant galaxies near the center of large clusters of galaxies.

Space Astrophile: Saturn-lookalike galaxy has a murky past. Astrophile is our weekly column covering curious cosmic objects, from within the solar system to the furthest reaches of the multiverse ...

That a look at the photo up top, which shows galaxy NGC 474 in the foreground. It’s an elliptical galaxy, which should mean that it’s bereft of gas and essentially dormant.

Rare, elliptical craters spotted on two of Saturn's moons reveal new clues about the satellites' age and formation, a new study shows. Using data from NASA's Cassini mission, researchers from the ...

Ferguson also mapped elliptical craters on Tethys, Saturn's fifth largest moon, and found that a similar size-frequency distribution of craters is unusual for objects orbiting the Sun, but ...

Hubble Space Telescope images of Saturn taken in 2018, 2019, and 2020 as the planet’s northern hemisphere summer transitions to fall. NASA/ESA/STScI/A. Simon/R. Roth ...

About 72 percent of the galaxies we’ve studied are spiral, like ours, but there are two other types of galaxies out there that we’ve observed. Elliptical galaxies are, well, elliptical in shape.