The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...

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

The Milky Way may have a twin. The discovery of the most distant spiral galaxy to date may change the way we think about both ...

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

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

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

Back when the Universe was new, following the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, galaxies took a bit of time to assemble ...

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 ...

Prior to the current finding, all black holes that scientists have ever identified have been spotted with a companion star.

The study is published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to take several billion years to form. During the first billion years of cosmic history ...

For the first time, scientists have managed to spot a lonely black hole drifting through space thanks to its gravity ...