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

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

Why do some galaxies spin like giant tops, while others appear stationary? This question has puzzled astronomers for decades, ...

Astronomers may have uncovered the origins of the mysterious “little red dots,” some of the strangest galaxies seen in the early universe. These tiny but brilliant objects, discovered by the James ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

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

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

Uncover the secrets of Milky Way formation. New research uses simulations to explain the mysterious chemical divide in our ...

A spectacular new view of two dwarf galaxies caught in the middle of a cosmic collision reveals a glowing gas bridge, streams ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

Astronomers have shared a jaw-dropping view of what galaxies looked like in the early Universe. A study has peered back to when the Universe was only about one billion years old, which researchers say ...