The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

Daniel StrainCU Boulder In a new study, a team of astrophysicists led by CU Boulder has set out to unravel the mysteries of ...

Atoms forged in stars take a gigantic meandering path before they become incorporated into a future generation of stars and ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

Astronomers uncover a young galaxy similar to the Milky Way, shedding light on its early formation just 600 million years ...

Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and destruction that shapes our galactic environment. Scientists may have unco ...

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are excited ...

But the state-of-the-art space observatory has recently imaged two grand design spiral galaxies, and one appears to be the ...

"It has a striking evolved morphology: a quiescent-like classical bulge + star-forming stellar disk + grand-design spiral ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Chris Willott (National Research Council Canada), Lamiya Mowla (Wellesley College), Kartheik ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.