You don't need us to tell you that Jupiter, which has more than twice the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

Spirals are only one of four major classifications for galaxies; the others are elliptical, irregular and peculiar. Elliptical galaxies would be better called spheroidal; they can be spherical but ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might have heard that galaxies come in different types, classified based on their shapes. There are elliptical galaxies, which are smooth and featureless ...

Jupiter still rules the early-evening skies ... which includes the massive elliptical galaxy M87. Discovered in 1781, this magnitude 8.6 galaxy spans roughly 7’ and is located in northern ...

Yet it does something galactic researchers only thought possible in much more massive elliptical galaxies, which form through mergers of galaxies: It hosts an enormous supermassive black hole that ...

My collaborators and I have just tackled one of astrophysics’ enduring mysteries: how massive elliptical galaxies can form. Now, for the first time, we have solid observational evidence that ...

Asteroids colliding with neutron stars could account for mysterious blasts of energy called fast radio bursts by releasing enough energy to supply humanity's power needs for one hundred million years.

Eps Ind Ab is a super-Jupiter, having a mass six times that of our solar system’s Jupiter. Its eccentric, elliptical orbit takes it on a ... After all, the universe is not just about stars and ...

Another is the product of Chandra's nearly 10 hours of observing the planet Jupiter. Chandra ... Chandra charts an elliptical orbit around Earth, traveling as close as 6,000 miles and as far ...

Hot Jupiters are some of the most extreme planets in our galaxy. These giant planets, similar in size to Jupiter ... creating a long, elliptical path. If it were in our solar system, it would ...

The newly discovered planet TIC 241249530 b has the most highly elliptical ... most extreme planets in the galaxy. These scorching worlds are as massive as Jupiter, and they swing wildly close ...