"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...

They have already set out to test their hypothesis with future observations. The results reported here have been published as Xiangyu Zhang and Gregory M. Green, “Three-dimensional maps of the ...

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring ... such as the Milky Way. Until now, there was no reason ...

What are you, SIMP 0136? Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way galaxy. It's rapidly spinning, and at some 13 ...

(CNN) — Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat.

For decades, capturing detailed images of galaxies beyond the Milky ... way that traditional space telescopes do not. Perhaps most impressively, this image resolves individual stars within the ...