A fully formed spiral galaxy from when the Universe was only 1.5 billion years old was found by Indian scientists using ...

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

Razor-thin chain of 14 galaxies may be the biggest spinning structure yet ...

A galaxy lurking in the far reaches of the Universe, a mere 600 million years after the Big Bang, is giving us our best ...

Indian astronomers have identified a surprisingly mature, Milky Way-like galaxy from the universe’s early era. Named ...

Galaxy Alaknanda challenges long-held theories of galaxy formation, which maintained that stable spiral galaxies could only ...

It's 7 billion years ago, and the universe's heyday of star formation is beginning to slow. What might our Milky Way galaxy have looked like at that time? Astronomers have found clues in the form of a ...

It's a fun question to tackle because it lets us dig into the messy, complicated, beautiful process of galaxy formation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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