A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and to scour the Milky Way galaxy for hidden reservoirs of water ...

Using infrared images captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have found that the Milky Way’s graceful spiral shape is mainly made up of just two major arms extending from a central bar ...

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spotted a rogue magnetar, dubbed SGR 0501+4516, traversing our galaxy for a significantly ... rays in the outer area of the Milky Way ...

A galaxy from the early cosmos appears to mirror our Milky Way in shape, size, and structure—something no one expected to see so soon. Ancient Light Reveals a Familiar Shape Astronomers have ...

GENEVA — A remarkable discovery is forcing astronomers to rethink fundamental theories about how quickly galaxies evolved in the early universe. Scientists have spotted what appears to be a ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an ultra-massive grand-design spiral galaxy that existed just one billion years after the Big Bang. Named Zhúlóng (Torch ...

With its spiral arms and large star-forming disc, Zhúlóng resembles the Milky Way. NASA/CSA/ESA, M. Xiao (University of Geneva), G ... has discovered a massive, Milky Way-like spiral galaxy—Zhúlóng ...

JWST detects early galaxy Zhúlóng at redshift z=7.3 Galaxy formed just 800 million years post-Big Bang Zhúlóng shares a spiral structure with the Milky Way ...

In a serendipitous cosmic discovery, astronomers have found a colossal galaxy that looks just like our own Milky Way – except it ... University of Geneva using NASA's powerful James Well Space ...