The Milky Way may have a twin. The discovery of the most distant spiral galaxy to date may change the way we think about both ...

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

"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 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 ...

Carrying two telescopes, the spacecraft's mission was to map the Milky Way, offering insights into the composition of our home galaxy and how it evolved, formed and is structured. Unlike the James ...

ESA's Gaia star surveying satellite launches European Space Agency starts to unfold atlas of 1 billion stars in 3D Carrying two telescopes, the spacecraft's mission was to map the Milky Way ...

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

Ancient Greek philosophers debated the Milky Way’s nature, with some attributing it to celestial fires and others viewing it as a dense cluster of distant stars. Credit: Ale RaFlo, CC BY-SA 4.0 via ...

The Milky Way rotates counterclockwise, putting it in the minority. These findings are surprising because if the universe is random, as previously thought, "there should be an approximately equal ...

Google Maps is one of the apps that gets the most love from Google in terms of regular updates, and we've spotted another couple of upgrades rolling out to the mapping app in recent days ...

A radio map of the Milky Way's central region taken with the MeerKAT telescope, with red boxes showing the previously unknown filamentary structures observed with the ALMA telescope. (Image credit ...