"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

This dragon shaped feature is a single spiral galaxy appearing in multiple locations next to each other in an arc. The Webb telescope's historic discovery will allow astronomers going forward to ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers think that the motion of the material around the ... These density waves are thought to cause the spiral nature ...

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 ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called "spiral nebula" was actually very far outside our own Milky Way galaxy —at a distance of approximately 2.5 million light-years ...

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 ...

But astronomers scrutinizing this particular Hubble image found the central galaxy actually sports a swirl of spiral arms seemingly unruffled by any such merger, raising new questions about what ...