Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

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

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

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

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan were surprised by their study results, which they say are "indisputable." ...

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

Xiao (University of Geneva), G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute), Dawn JWST Archive) The Milky Way may have a twin. The discovery of the most distant spiral galaxy to date may change the way we think ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals turbulent environments found in Sagittarius C, a core part of our Milky Way galaxy.

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

The study is published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to take several billion years to form. During the first billion years of cosmic history ...