Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

The Milky Way may have a twin. The discovery of the most distant spiral galaxy to date may change the way we think about both ...

An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...

From this simple observation, soon repeated for other starry nebulae, it became clear that the Milky Way was only one star system (or galaxy) among myriad others. This was the birth of our modern ...

Above the great sheath of stars that defines the ship’s keel is a ragged circle of stars. That’s Vela the Sails, though there ...

Sadly, 99% of the population in the continental U.S. lives in places considered polluted by light—meaning most of us can’t view our own galaxy. These 9 dark sky refuges bring the Milky Way ...

Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of ...

Located 12 million light-years away, M82 appears high in the northern spring sky in ... the “Cigar Galaxy” because of the elliptical shape produced by the oblique tilt of its starry disk ...

The Milky Way, the Big Dipper and Polaris the north ... a cross-shaped monument stands out against the backdrop of a starry sky. Commonly known as Julia's Cross, it was installed in tribute ...