The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

A striking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare object called an Einstein ring. This shows what appears to be a ring-shaped object in the sky, but is actually created by two ...

Potential polar ring galaxy NGC 4632. The picture shows a gaseous ring perpendicularly circulating the main spiral disk of the galaxy. [Credit: Jayanne English (U. Manitoba), Nathan Deg (Queen's U.) ...

And irregular galaxies, as their name suggests, lack a predictable, organized shape. But ring galaxies don't fit into these neat categories. This has led some researchers and citizen scientists to ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies ... own separate polar orbit, the ...