Five new portraits of galaxies located between 4 million to 30 million light-years from Earth could help astronomers unlock the secrets of cosmic evolution.

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous galaxy bursting with new star formation. This intermediate spiral galaxy is located about 50 million light-years from Earth in ...

A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara ...