Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This "twin" of the Milky Way existed just 1 billion years after the ...

Astronomers have discovered a massive galaxy 153 times larger than the Milky Way. This cosmic giant challenges our ...

Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early universe. It’s a cosmic giant whose light has travelled over 12 billion years to ...

Astronomers have made a fascinating discovery in the Ursa Major constellation that could potentially challenge our ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small ...

For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages ...

The Milky Way Galaxy's magnetic turbulence stands revealed in an innovative new computer model describing the expanse between ...

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

We named this galaxy Zhúlóng, meaning ‘Torch Dragon’ in Chinese mythology.

The way that Hubble images are produced is similar to how the James Webb Space Telescope uses filters and combines these to create stunning pictures of otherwise invisible objects, a process which ...

NASA's Chandra Observatory recently captured an X-ray image that helped identify a dramatic break in one of the galaxy's ...