The universe never ... fascinating about our galaxy, the Milky Way. Home to nearly 400 billion stars, astronomers say it is only a tiny part of an even larger local structure.

Astronomers discovered it using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The size and shape surprised experts worldwide.

An accidental discovery by a team of astronomers has upended existing theories about how galaxies formed in the early universe ... galaxy, including its redshift, morphology and kinematic structure.

"When and how galaxy disks form has been an outstanding puzzle," he says. "Seeing a massive, well-ordered disk galaxy when the universe was ... within this over-dense structure and analyzed ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

Astronomers thought they’d made a mistake when stars in a nearby galaxy didn’t seem to rotate — but the unusual pattern ...

The new results allow us to obtain information about the structure of the magnetic field of our Galaxy, as well as helping to understand the energetic processes which took place close to the birth of ...

The galaxy in question also possesses vastly more dark matter than the Milky Way, hinting at a connection between active black holes and the abundance of the ... destroy the structure of that ...