The James Webb Telescope has discovered a gigantic galaxy in the early universe, likely from 12 billion years ago. Scientists ...

The James Webb Telescope has discovered a gigantic galaxy in the early universe, probably from 12 billion years ago.

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...

A disk galaxy, like our Milky Way, is a flat, rotating system with spiral arms spreading out from a central core. These ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a breathtaking image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430, situated 100 million light-years from Earth in the Leo Minor constellation.

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across, containing roughly 200 billion stars, and our solar system is located about 26,000 light-years from its center. It takes ...

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a giant spiral galaxy that shouldn't exist. If it finds more, scientists may ...

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have created the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the characteristics of cosmic dust in the Milky Way galaxy, according to a study ...