A galaxy remarkably similar in shape to our own Milky Way, yet significantly bigger and dating back to the universe's infancy ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that, surprisingly, is shaped much ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like ...

NGC 3596 is a typical spiral galaxy, other than its straight-on orientation ... in part because of the sheer diversity of other examples. "Some have clear spiral arms, while others have patchy ...

The record-breaking galaxy is revealing secrets about the first stars and their unexpected chemical fingerprints.

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...

Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes. The Milky Way, for example, is a spiral galaxy because of the way that stars, dust, and gas spiral out from the center of the galaxy. But spiral galaxies ...

Up until recently, theorists have believed a galaxy as elegant as the Milky Way — having a rotating disk and spiral arms, for example — would require billions of years of evolution.