Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe ...

The researchers are now looking for more of these weird galaxies to learn more about how stars were forming in the first 1 ...

The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to ours, the Milky Way. On moonless nights it’s visible to the naked eye, but it takes a powerful space telescope to see that Andromeda isn’t as alone ...

Astronomers have discovered even brighter infrared galaxies that have inspired some ... they illustrate that the universe can be pretty weird all on its own. Physicist Freeman Dyson speculated ...

Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

For instance, Weisz says it's odd that half of the mini galaxies around Andromeda seem to follow the same plane, orbiting in the same direction. "That's weird. It was actually a total surprise to ...

Scientists have identified the 'weird' origin of a high-energy burst ... they have found that the FRB came from a cluster of galaxies that existed when the universe was only five billion years ...

Here, hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different shapes and sizes take center stage and show a glimpse of their large-scale organization in the cosmic web. On 19 March 2025, the European Space ...

In images of the deep universe taken by the James Webb Space Telescope Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, the vast majority of the galaxies rotate in the same direction, according to research by ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers have been stumped by how these complex structures form, but now a ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Galaxies have been found to stop forming stars as early as 700 million years after the Big Bang, earlier than theoretical models predicted. The James Webb Space ...