The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy that is a "cosmic fossil" which has remained "frozen in time" for billions of years. Just as dinosaur fossils here on Earth are used to probe the evolution ...

The image of Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy discovered to date. It has remarkably well-defined spiral arms, a central old bulge, and a large star-forming disk, resembling the structure of the ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

A recent breakthrough in astronomical research,published in Nature Astronomy, has provided a detailed glimpse into the internal structure of an ancient galaxy, thanks to one of the strongest ...

Observations by the keen-eyed Webb Space Telescope have revealed a huge galaxy in the distant—which is to say early—universe. The galaxy is a vibrant orange disk, dubbed the Big Wheel. Its life began ...

We’re looking back to a time when the universe was making stars much faster than today,” said Tom Bakx, a postdoctoral ...

Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing insight on the evolution of the universe. Galaxy clusters — the largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe — ...

When you’re creating a movie about alien creatures in a galaxy far, far away, you need to be creative when it comes to sound. You might need to head to a chicken farm, for instance, as one sound ...