A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

A Milky Way Twin in the Early Universe Among these new findings is Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy candidate identified to date, seen at a redshift of 5.2 – just 1 billion years after ...