The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

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

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

Astronomers say the extreme magnetic field of Magnetar SGR 0501+4516 could ‘rip apart every atom inside the body’ ...

Rogue planets—planets that are adrift in space, unmoored from any star—have been a topic of ... a long time for shedding worlds into the Milky Way. But there very well could be galactic ...

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

A team of UNSW Sydney researchers has unlocked the "sounds" of stars to better understand their age, mass, and evolutionary ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us groundbreaking insights into our home galaxy, the Milky Way.