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

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

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 ...

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

In recent years, astronomers have been able to study the motion of the stars in the galaxy with outstanding precision. And ...

Images of the distant spiral galaxy are changing conceptions of the speed and process by which galaxies form.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields affect star formation at the chaotic center of the Milky Way.

April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

The Milky Way's twin from the dawn of time has been discovered thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. According to ...