The galaxy is called MACS1149-JD1 — or just JD1 for short — and its light took about 13.3 billion years to reach us. Given the Universe is only about 13.8 billion years old, we see this galaxy ...

A stunning blue light likely caused by SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fuel illuminated the night skies over Europe on Monday.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and, thus, earliest strongly rotating galaxy ever seen that is well-organized ...

A galaxy in the constellation Centaurus is puzzling astronomers by spinning in the wrong direction. NGC 4622 has bright twisting arms containing newborn stars and lies 111 million light years away ...

A spiral galaxy 111 million light-years from Earth seems to be breaking the rules about how galaxies should behave: it's spinning backwards. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope captured ...

The average-size NGC 685 galaxy boasts at least 100 million stars. Some 58 million light-years from Earth, the NGC 685 galaxy appears to be spinning like a top in the depths of space. The Hubble ...

The Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) is a stunning spiral with well-defined arms. ... When you look at a spinning wheel from one side, it looks like it’s spinning clockwise.

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy with strange clouds orbiting its supermassive black hole. Rather than all circling in the same direction, NGC 1068 has two rings that orbit in opposite ...

The galaxy, designated REBELS-25, is seen as it was just 700 million years after the Big Bang, at a time when astronomers expect galaxies to have been small and messy.Living up to its name, this ...

JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way — scientists call it 'Big Wheel' Record-breaking 'dead' galaxy discovered by JWST lived fast and died young in the early universe ...