Large, grand-design spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way are common in the nearby Universe. But they have proven hard to ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

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

“It is really exciting that this galaxy resembles a grand-design spiral galaxy like our Milky Way,” says Williams. “It is generally thought that it takes billions of years for this structure ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

The large swirl of stars is known as a grand-design spiral galaxy, and its exceptionally advanced age could change what we know about galaxy formation. Generally, the older a galaxy is ...

Discover the amazing similarities between Zhúlóng and the Milky Way, challenging our understanding of galaxy evolution.

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

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

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

This could reveal the formation history of this well-ordered galaxy, explaining how a "grand design" spiral galaxy came to exist in the early universe. "This discovery shows how JWST is ...