Located 12 billion light years away, the Alaknanda galaxy looks strikingly like the Milky Way. Its orderly spiral structure ...

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

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

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 ...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is estimated to be 13.6 billion years old. It began to form a few hundred million years after the ...

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

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 ...

Indian scientists have discovered an ancient and massive galaxy called Alaknanda. It looks similar to our Milky Way galaxy ...

Galaxies that formed so early in the life of the universe are expected to be not very well-structured, turbulent and unstable ...

New imagery has been released from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which captured a photo of a spiral galaxy more than 76 million light-years away from Earth. The galaxy known to observers as NGC 2566 ...