Astronomers have gotten their first clear look at galaxy in the very early universe that could have evolved into a structure somewhat like the Milky Way. Made up predominantly of gas when spotted ...

Astronomers are seeing what Earth's own galaxy looked like in its youth by scanning the skies for some of the oldest objects in the universe. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...

A strange, starless object is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies are born. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA ...

From our vantage point inside it, the Milky Way can feel infinite, a hazy river of light that wraps around the sky. Yet when ...

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A team of researchers led by the University of Arizona recently used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to examine a group of 10 galaxies that existed only 830 million years after the Big Bang, ...

Astronomers classify galaxies based on their structure; there are a number of different galaxy classifications out there, such as elliptical, irregular, and spiral, but now astronomers have come up ...

The dual disk structure of our home galaxy may not be as unique as once thought, according to the results of a new study that probed the cross section of a spiral galaxy orbiting edge-on from the ...

The telescopes astronomers use to probe the universe have gotten very good over the years. We can peer out into the universe to see uncountable galaxies in fine detail, but we actually know less about ...