The latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope turns a distant spiral galaxy into a laboratory for extreme weather in space ...

Analyzing data obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers found a galaxy with a spiral morphology by only 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang. This is the most ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The starburst galaxy NGC 4536, seen here in a photo by the Hubble Space Telescope, has bright ...

Early in the story of the universe, long before galaxies like the Milky Way were expected to take shape, astronomers have now identified a system that already looks strikingly familiar. Researchers at ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies could not yet exist. Two astronomers from India have identified a ...

Spiral galaxy NGC 628 is 32 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. Webb’s image of NGC 628 shows a densely populated face-on spiral galaxy anchored by its central region, which has a ...

Cosmologists may have to rethink galaxy evolution theories as more mature and orderly galaxies are found in the early universe. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Joseph Olmsted (STScI) illustration Imagine ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is a spiral, like our home the Milky Way. Yet it does something galactic ...

Image of the newly discovered spiral galaxy Alaknanda (inset) as observed in the shorter wavelength JWST bands. Several bright galaxies from the foreground Abell 2744 cluster are also seen. A spiral ...