Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

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

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

The object in question is a cosmic filament, a thread-like chain of gas that is about 5.5 million light-years in length and ...

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

The astronomers estimate that this galaxy will deplete itself of gas in only a few hundred million years.

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

Astronomers have identified a remarkable population of distant quasars whose radio jets balloon to scales that make our own galaxy look compact, stretching to widths roughly 50 times larger than the ...

Researchers in Peru uncovered an ancient structure older than the Chankillo Solar Observatory, reshaping views on early ...

New multi-temperature coronal mass ejection observations might help us better understand how life emerged and evolved on Earth ...

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