Astronomers have spotted what may be one of the universe’s earliest barred spiral galaxies — a striking cosmic structure forming just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, COSMOS-74706, ...

NGC 941 is located approximately 55 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. This faint galaxy is classified as ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures stunning imagery of barred spiral galaxy UGC 678. The galaxy is located about 260 million ...

Recent research has uncovered a barred spiral galaxy formed 11.5 billion years ago, making it one of the earliest known galaxies that contains a stellar bar. The research was supported by Yingjie ...

An international team of astronomers has performed multi-wavelength observations of the nearby Araish galaxy to investigate the origin of its radio emission. As a result, they detected an extended ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captures stunning views of ...

Grillmair persevered, however, and soon made the “monumental” discovery of detecting signs of water on another planet, IPAC ...

In A Nutshell A massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy faded by more than 10,000 times over a decade and vanished from view, ...

Wausau Pilot & Review The night sky this week rewards patience, darkness and careful timing. A rare stretch of moonless evenings brings one of the ...

A newly discovered jellyfish galaxy, seen as it existed 8.5 billion years ago, is challenging assumptions about conditions in the early universe. Astrophysicists at the University of Waterloo have ide ...

Hubble catches a spiral galaxy mid-flight, shedding glowing gas as it battles the harsh environment of a nearby galaxy cluster.

"When Arp 220 is observed as a whole, it's one of the best places in the universe for astronomers to study how gravity, star formation, and powerful winds work together with strong magnetic fields to ...