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

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a beautiful barred spiral galaxy, but we will never see what it looks like from the outside. It ...

A new study reports a massive ancient galaxy. It formed when the universe was very young. The universe today is 13.8 billion ...

In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...

In a breakthrough that could rewrite astronomy textbooks, Indian researchers have discovered a massive, perfectly structured ...

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

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

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

The new study reports the detection of a mysterious halo-like glow of gamma rays around the Milky Way, peaking sharply at ...

This image by Taiwanese photographer Shang Yao-Yuan shows that you don't need the latest kit to capture the cosmos ...

A scientist analyzing Fermi telescope data found a strange glow around the Milky Way that looks like it could be coming from ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...