Astronomers have spotted the farthest spiral galaxy ever seen. Its light has travelled 12.8 billion years to reach Earth.

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

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

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

Scientists have discovered that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is larger than should be expected considering the size of our local galactic neighborhood. A viral video of a giant red moon rising ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of precious life in it?" ...

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 ...

Want to learn how to capture the cosmic river of light flowing endlessly across the night sky? Award-winning ...

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 ...