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

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

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

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

Dragging the trash barrel to the curb, I look up at the night sky, and my current self is instantly tethered to all my past ...

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

International Dark Sky Week is a worldwide celebration of the night. The Western Slope Dark Sky Coalition was formed in 2021 to help communities with Dark Sky initiatives and planning. The coalition ...

With the right settings, a touch of creative editing, and some useful astrophotography tips, you'll be capturing galaxies with your phone in no time through.

I can’t see that many from here; the band of the Milky Way that I used ... is disorienting, the night sky, for me, is deeply orienting — not only in cosmologic time, but also in my own ...

Above the great sheath of stars that defines the ship’s keel is a ragged circle of stars. That’s Vela the Sails, though there ...

Experience the magic of stargazing like never before in a cozy geo dome in Sheridan, Illinois. Escape the city lights and ...