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

An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

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

Astronomers from Swinburne University in Australia and elsewhere have employed the Keck II telescope to investigate the ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

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

Independent scientists described the findings as interesting, but not nearly enough to show the existence of life on another ...

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered Zhúlóng, a fully-formed spiral galaxy that existed just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, challenging our understanding of how quickly galaxies can mature ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission collected its first ...

The galaxy spans more than 60,000 light-years across and contains over 100 billion solar masses in stars, making it one of the most compelling analogues of the Milky Way ever found from such an ...