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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The JWST's image of the Big Wheel galaxy, a massive rotating disk 11.7 billion light-years away.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, which gave birth to the universe some 13.8 ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 light-years from the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

After more than a decade of delivering groundbreaking discoveries from the far reaches of our galaxy, the Gaia spacecraft officially completed its mission and was shut down on March 27 due to its ...

The new image is an up-close view of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest ...

A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara ...

Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early universe. It's a cosmic giant whose light has travelled over 12 billion years to ...

An image of the Milky Way captured by the MeerKAT radio telescope array puts the James Webb Space Telescope’s image of the Sagittarius C region in context. The MeerKAT image spans 1,000 light ...