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 ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope has captured the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530, located 40 million light-years ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At the heart of our galaxy, in the turbulent region surrounding the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope peers at Sagittarius C, a star-forming region about 200 light-years from the Milky Way's central black ... "both in our galaxy and beyond." ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish ... based MeerKAT radio telescope shows our home galaxy in a completely new way. Colored in blue, cyan, yellow and white, the main ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will collide and explode in 23 billion years. The blast—were we around to ...

First up is the Andromeda Galaxy, our closest neighbour in the cosmos, featuring stunning spiral arms and a vibrant central core. Next is the Whirlpool Galaxy, a breathtaking spiral with a ...

The shapes can seem to appear out of nowhere: an undulating S-like spiral streaking across the European skies or a glowing orb trailing above the North American coast. Such strange light shows ...