The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronauts Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from ...

Researchers have uncovered the earliest-known depiction of the Milky Way in coffin art depicting the Egyptian sky goddess Nut ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

We named this galaxy Zhúlóng, meaning ‘Torch Dragon’ in Chinese mythology.

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...

If you look above and behind it, you'll see an undulating curve that may represent the Milky Way galaxy. . | Credit: Photo ...

Large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to take several billion years to form. During the first billion years of cosmic history, galaxies are thought to be small, chaotic ...

The study is published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to take several billion years to form. During the first billion years of cosmic history ...