The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

An object inside our galaxy is moving so fast that it is on track to break free of the Milky Way altogether, racing through ...

Star chemistry reveals two spiral arms and a faint bridge in the Milky Way, offering a clearer view of hidden structure in ...

The key enabling tools behind the discovery are the extraordinary sensitivity of JWST and a phenomenon called gravitational ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

A new study reports a massive ancient galaxy. It formed when the universe was very young. The universe today is 13.8 billion ...