Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

They identified a giant grand-design spiral galaxy, named Zhúlóng, which could well be the most distant ever observed. This galaxy, located at a photometric redshift of about 5.2, has a mass ...

"It's extremely rare and exciting to find a quasar-hosting galaxy with spiral arms and a black hole that is more than 400 million times the mass of the sun—which is pretty big—plus young jets ...

JWST has spotted a huge, ultramassive galaxy as it appeared 12.8 billion years ago, so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design ...

This image of a spiral galaxy, captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, will be on a new United States Postal Service stamp scheduled to be released to the public Jan. 21. Danny Dale, a ...