The CMZ spans almost 700 light years and contains some of the most dense molecular gas in the galaxy. Over the years, ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

The Milky Way may have a twin. The discovery of the most distant spiral galaxy to date may change the way we think about both ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

"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 long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

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

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to ...

A team of researchers at Nagoya University has discovered evidence that the Small Magellanic Cloud is potentially being torn ...