How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

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

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a ...

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

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." Our cosmic neighborhood may ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier than astronomers believed such well-structured galaxies could form. With ...