The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen, a "Milky Way twin" that existed 1 ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Images of the distant spiral galaxy are changing conceptions of the speed and process by which galaxies form.

Scientists have uncovered a massive galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. But how did this colossal ...

Back when the Universe was new, following the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, galaxies took a bit of time to assemble ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to ...

The JWST's image of the Big Wheel galaxy, a massive rotating disk 11.7 billion light-years away. Its spiral stretches 100,000 light-years, making it the largest confirmed galaxy of its time.