Scientists once thought the early universe didn't make them.

A fully formed spiral galaxy from when the Universe was only 1.5 billion years old was found by Indian scientists using ...

The discovery comes as a surprise to scientists, as they believed the formation of such well-organized spiral galaxies took ...

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

Astronomers have uncovered an ancient cosmic artifact 11 billion light-years from Earth: the oldest spiral galaxy ever seen. The newly discovered galaxy, known as A1689B11, is an ancestor of modern ...

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

Galaxy Alaknanda challenges long-held theories of galaxy formation, which maintained that stable spiral galaxies could only ...

The key enabling tools behind the discovery are the extraordinary sensitivity of JWST and a phenomenon called gravitational ...

Indian scientists have discovered an ancient and massive galaxy called Alaknanda. It looks similar to our Milky Way galaxy and is special because it has clear spiral arms, even though it formed when ...

The galaxy, seen when the universe was 1.5 billion years old, has a Milky Way-like structure that defies standard models of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new ...

Discovered: Astronomers find the oldest known spiral galaxy; dolphins are good with numbers; Japan's nuclear disaster will probably result in 130 deaths; and laziness is on par with smoking. A spiral ...