The James Webb Space Telescope has upended expectations again, revealing a massive spiral galaxy in the universe’s infancy ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

Scientists once thought the early universe didn't make them.

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.

The key enabling tools behind the discovery are the extraordinary sensitivity of JWST and a phenomenon called gravitational ...

Our solar system is a passenger on a galactic rollercoaster. Part 2 reveals how the Sun, carrying Earth, orbits the Milky Way's core at 491,000 mph, completing a circuit every 230 million years. We ...

Galaxy Alaknanda challenges long-held theories of galaxy formation, which maintained that stable spiral galaxies could only ...

A new study reports a massive ancient galaxy. It formed when the universe was very young. The universe today is 13.8 billion ...

In a breakthrough that could rewrite astronomy textbooks, Indian researchers have discovered a massive, perfectly structured ...

Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using NASA's ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...