This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

Amateur astrophotographer Dr. Michele Hernandez Baylisshas captured incredible views of the Croc's Eye and Whirlpool galaxies ...

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 ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's s MIRI and NIRCam instruments have captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 2090. The ...

Astrophotographer Ron Brecher has captured a stunning deep sky image of the spiral galaxy M106, located 23.5 million light ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Large, grand-design spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way are common in the nearby Universe. But they have proven hard to ...

The latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in the enigmatic galaxy, ...

Spiral galaxy IC 5332: The galaxy lies about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor and has an almost face ...

The most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date has been discovered. This ultra-massive system existed just one ...