Astronomers Catch Powerful ‘Zombie Star’ Speeding Through the Milky Way, Have No Idea Where It is From The Hubble Space ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

Scientists say it's the earliest galaxy seen doing this (so far). Astronomers have caught an immensely ancient galaxy ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Discover the amazing similarities between Zhúlóng and the Milky Way, challenging our understanding of galaxy evolution.

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

A glittering fireworks display, this is a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2 that resides in a raucous stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20,000 light-years away from ...

The fast-moving gas cloud could help explain the so-called missing satellite problem, if the object is what scientists think ...

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured a colorful portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy from the Dark Sky Alqueva Observatory in ...

The Magellanic Clouds are two irregular dwarf galaxies visible from the Southern Hemisphere that orbit our own Milky Way ...