Discovered through the keen eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope, this galaxy traveled across eons to deliver a message: ...

Those "arms" resemble the elongated structures of a spiral galaxy, like our very own Milky Way. At an epic timescale "comparable to the age of the solar system," which is 4.6 billion years old ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, which gave birth to the universe some 13.8 ...

Nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy contains something it shouldn't: a supermassive black hole with jets so powerful, the spiral should no longer be stable. J2345-0449—as the ...

A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara ...

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous galaxy bursting with new star formation. This intermediate spiral galaxy is located about 50 million light-years from Earth in ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a spiral galaxy, NGC 4900, and a nearby star in the constellation Virgo. Despite appearing close, the star is ...

Our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy rotating around a central point. Our Sun is on one of the spiral arms as shown in the diagram: The Sun's orbital speed is determined almost entirely by the ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a vibrant spiral galaxy called NGC 5042 resides about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra (the water snake). The galaxy ...

Scientists have uncovered a massive galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. But how did this colossal ...