Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

JWST unlocks 10-billion-year mystery of how galaxies shape themselves Date: June 30, 2025 Source: Tohoku University Summary: Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick ...

Disk galaxies, like our own Milky Way galaxy, commonly consist of both a thick and thin disk of stars—each with different features, including stellar population and movement. Three major ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to astronomers.

Maffei 1 and 2 are faint, dust-obscured galaxies near the Milky Way—discovered in 1967 and challenging targets for deep-sky observers.

A James Webb Space Telescope study is setting the record straight on the ages of some known ancient galaxies, which have turned out to be much older and farther away in space than previously ...

Throughout cosmic evolution, although dwarf galaxies are individually small, they are numerous and serve as the fundamental building blocks shaping the large-scale structure of today's universe ...

The Andromeda galaxy lies just beyond (...OK, about 2.5 million light-years beyond) our galaxy, the Milky Way. For the past hundred years or so, scientists thought these galaxies existed in a long ...

Mysterious ‘little red dot’ galaxies have a possible origin story The tiny galaxies may have been born with little spin, letting gas funnel toward their centers ...

A strange line of dwarf galaxies may have been the result of a bullet-like cosmic collision. Michael Keim at Yale University and his colleagues used the Keck Observatory in Hawaii to study a ...