"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

In this special Hubble image 23 years in the making, the sparkling spiral galaxy UGC 10043 reveals the secrets of its ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and Milky-Way-like galaxy yet. The disc galaxy ... time to develop unique shapes and features like spiral arms. In the early universe, galaxies were ...

Messier 81, a grand design spiral galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Willner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) / Wikimedia Commons The Webb Space ...

Among the important findings is the discovery of very young galaxies that already looked like their more senior counterparts in the local universe, and a recent study has shown a spiral galaxy ...

Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new grand-design spiral galaxy as part of the PANORAMIC survey. The newfound galaxy, named ...

The twisting cloud appears to be reaching for a spiral galaxy known as ESO 257-19 (PGC ... remnant as well as a pulsar, or a ...

That’s because M101 is a grand spiral galaxy, with arms full of stars ... A cloud of gas and dust expanding into space with a spinning pulsar at its core, we know it was seen by humans because ...

Pulsar—A rapidly spinning neutron star that emits radio ... asteroids, comets). Spiral galaxy—A system of billions of stars with a central bulge of older stars surrounded by a flat disk ...