This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

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

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

Astrophotographer Ron Brecher has captured a stunning deep sky image of the spiral galaxy M106, located 23.5 million light ...

Large, grand-design spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way are common in the nearby Universe. But they have proven hard to ...

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

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

The latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in the enigmatic galaxy, ...

Discover the amazing similarities between Zhúlóng and the Milky Way, challenging our understanding of galaxy evolution.

The photos capture both our neighboring planets and galaxies far, far away in a stunning release to celebrate one of NASA’s ...

In simplest terms, the rate at which the universe expands on paper doesn’t match actual astronomical observations. That speed ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has ...