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

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

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

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

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

There are literally billions upon billions of galaxies out there in the cosmos, but the Milky Way is just a little bit ...

A team has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. Their findings suggest that the gravitational pull of ...

OREO, cherished worldwide for its special bond with milk as epitomized by the "OREO dunk", has reimagined this classic ritual ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals turbulent environments found in Sagittarius C, a core part of our Milky Way galaxy.

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan were surprised by their study results, which they say are "indisputable." ...