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

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

Instead of a relatively distant dark galaxy, Westmeier thinks the object is more likely a regular gas cloud at the edge of the Milky Way. “I’m very skeptical about the claims that they’re ...

A galaxy from the early cosmos appears to mirror our Milky Way in shape, size ... lacked distinct forms and were chaotic. The spiral arms, centre bulge, and huge star-forming disc, however ...

It’s a dwarf galaxy satellite of the Milky Way looking fuzzy in the sky. What you wouldn’t know from looking at it, is that it’s being torn apart by another satellite, also visible to the ...

have spotted a galaxy with distinct spiral arms. Experts reckon it's the most distant 'twin' galaxy to our own Milky Way that's ever been discovered, and how cool is it that we've got technology that ...

Previously, it was believed that galaxies like ours would take billions of years to form distinct features like spiral arms ... between the Milky Way and this early cosmic dragon galaxy is ...

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