A multinational research collaboration led by the University of Oxford has pinpointed an immense, extraordinarily thin band ...

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...

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

At least some evidence suggests that NGC 2775 developed its odd shape after merging with other galaxies eons ago. While not ...

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

While nearly all massive galaxies possess central black holes, the presence of such black holes in dwarf galaxies remains an open question, with previous estimates identifying them in only 0.5% of ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Alaknanda, a remarkably mature spiral galaxy existing just 1.5 billion years ...

The scientific community is abuzz with the recent revelations made by the James Webb Space Telescope. This revolutionary instrument has discovered galaxies that are far older than previously thought, ...

Indian scientists have discovered a 13.8-billion-year-old galaxy that resembles the Milky Way. The galaxy has been named ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful evidence of dark matter. Her groundbreaking work revealed that most of the ...