The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

A generic model of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. NASA Imagine a piece of rock and ice, forged in the violent crucible of a star system millions of years ago, finally arriving on your doorstep.

TWO researchers from an astrophysics institute in Pune have discovered one of the most distant spiral galaxies ever observed ...

The discovery comes as a surprise to scientists, as they believed the formation of such well-organized spiral galaxies took ...

About 4.5 million years ago, a great cosmic dog kicked past our Solar System – and its effects may still be seen today.

A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a ...

Skywatchers will have a lot to look at in the night skies over Alabama in December. A super moon, a meteor shower and a comet ...

Thursday’s “Cold Moon” will peak just after sunset — don’t miss the brightest full moon of the year. Also, why not take a ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Two researchers from an astrophysics institute in Pune have discovered one of the most distant spiral galaxies ever observed - a massive, well-formed system that existed when the universe was just 1.5 ...

Coiled and snakelike, a set of four identical shells surrounds a violent stellar dance 8,000 light-years from Earth.