A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...

R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...

Scientists have many big questions to tackle about the universe, including how big it actually is. But even the proposed answers aren't straightforward.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Alaknanda, a remarkably mature spiral galaxy existing just 1.5 billion years ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

A team of astronomers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has released new data from an ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Astronomers in India say their discovery of a massive galaxy from when the Universe was only 1.5 billion years old challenges ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...