Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

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

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms. A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way Galaxy. This cloudy region ... such stellar nursery to Earth lies in the Orion Nebula, just below Orion's belt.

Some three times the size of our Milky Way, the galaxy lies nearly a billion years ... retaining its structure of well-defined arms, a bright nuclear bar and a surrounding "stellar ring" of ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region ... such stellar nursery to Earth lies in the Orion Nebula, just below Orion's belt.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms. The galaxy, NGC 5530, is located 40 ...