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

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery—a massive spiral disk galaxy, much larger than expected, in the early universe.

The galaxy is a vibrant orange disk, dubbed the Big Wheel. Its life began within the universe’s first two billion years of ...

His research focused on spiral galaxies and the direction in which they rotate. Logically, their spin should be evenly ...

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar ...

An accidental discovery by a team of astronomers has upended existing theories about how galaxies formed in the early ...

New insights from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer unprecedented images of the universe at 380,000 years old, revealing ...

The "cosmic pinwheel" that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous as ...

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery that challenges current theories of galaxy formation. A colossal disk-shaped ...

Many galaxies are visible in this deep field exposure, and its just a part of a larger mosaic, zoomed in 16 times.

The Euclid space telescope has spotted 26 million galaxies in just one week of observations. The European Space Agency (ESA) ...