Astronomers have made an exciting discovery—a massive spiral disk galaxy, much larger than expected, in the early universe.

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar ...

This is a bustling, busy galaxy, with vigorous star formation and a bright center called an active galactic nucleus. Thanks to its orientation relative to Earth, we can see the elegant spiral shape.

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous spiral galaxy bursting with new star formation.

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy. The halo, known as an ...

Researchers have identified a galaxy that existed when the universe was less than 300 million years old. This galaxy, known ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy ... blindingly bright flares of light ...

Observed by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the galaxy—designated JADES-GS-z14-0—is unexpectedly bright and chemically complex for an object from this primordial era, the researchers said.

Known as NGC 4536, the galaxy boasts sweeping spiral arms speckled with bright blue clusters of baby stars and vibrant pink clumps of ionized hydrogen gas. It is classified as an intermediate ...