The discovery of Zhúlóng, an ultramassive spiral galaxy observed as it appeared just 12.8 billion years ago, challenges ...

A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters explores how binary star systems—two stars born together ...

We named this galaxy Zhúlóng, meaning ‘Torch Dragon’ in Chinese mythology.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This "twin" of the Milky Way existed just 1 billion years after ...

FCC 224 likely has a twin galaxy, too, Tang and his team suggest in their study. One candidate is the nearby galaxy FCC 240, which appears to have the same size, shape and orientation as FCC 224.

If we could see our own galaxy in its entirety, as we see NGC 6744, a twin galaxy 30 million light years away, measuring the Milky Way’s mass would be easy. But we see it from our place in one ...

In a serendipitous cosmic discovery, astronomers have found a colossal galaxy that looks just like our own Milky Way – except it formed more than 13 billion years ago, barely a billion years ...