A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

Indian astronomers have identified a surprisingly mature, Milky Way-like galaxy from the universe’s early era. Named ...

Extensive observations by NASA's New Horizons mission have resulted in the first-ever map of the galaxy in an ultraviolet wavelength. A new study from the NASA New Horizons mission team at the ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

When NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of an elliptical galaxy, it caught something else in the frame: A bright, red arc of light wrapped around it. That glowing curve isn't the sign of ...

An undated image from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope shows an outflow from a nearby still-forming star in infrared light, with a spiral galaxy off in the distance. (NASA via AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ...

The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several hundred million years after the Big Bang. Now, it's sensed light from a ...

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 ...

You are face-to-face with spiral galaxy NGC 3596, courtesy of an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. British astronomer William Herschel was the first person to see and document the galaxy ...

There's an optical illusion in this Hubble Space Telescope image. Credit: ESA / NASA / H. Nayyeri / L. Marchetti / J. Lowenthal When NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of an elliptical ...