Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and ‘weighed’ a galaxy that existed about 600 million years after the big bang.

Research shows that galaxies form inside gigantic haloes of dark matter, the elusive substance that doesn't interact with ...

For the first time, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has detected and "weighed" a galaxy that not only existed ...

Down here on Earth, if we’re lucky, we can spot the Milky Way glimmering in the night sky like a sparkling stretch of fog across space. It can be a rare sight, especially for city dwellers who ...

If you thought that the Milky Way was just your average run-of-the-mill galaxy, you’d be wrong. Turns out that it’s quite the freak and we shouldn’t consider it a standard example of how ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, new research shows. Analysis of the brightest stars in the ...

A new study claims to have discovered about 200 ancient stars in the Milky Way’s halo, the most ... [+] distant of which is more than a million light-years from Earth. That’s almost half the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's brand-new image of the Sombrero Galaxy casts this city of stars in a new light — ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 light-years and contains between 100 billion and 400 billion stars. The Milky Way ...

Among all space mysteries, the creation of the universe's grandest galaxies is among the most mystifying, but new research ...