A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

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

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

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

A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

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

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

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

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

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

“Observing the Galaxy is like standing in the middle of a brightly lit city at night. If you look toward the outskirts, the ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others ...