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

A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the charming Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just revealed a new category of massive, red galaxies, dubbed Ultra-red Flattened Objects ...

Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's MIRI instrument has captured the final moments of a planet's existence, unexpectedly ...

Astronomer Charles Steinhardt said most stars we see "might have formed under different conditions than we previously ...