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

This spiral galaxy, named Alaknanda, is changing what astronomers think about how — and when — such objects form.

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.

Indian astronomers have identified a surprisingly mature, Milky Way-like galaxy from the universe’s early era. Named ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

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

The Hubble Space Telescope has turned its sharp eye toward a ghostly swirl of stars and gas known as the "Lost Galaxy," given ...

In a discovery that could reshape our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve, astronomers have identified the most distant spiral galaxy candidate ever observed—a vast, mature system that ...

Indian astronomers have discovered 'Alaknanda,' a remarkably well-formed spiral galaxy, just 1.5 billion years after the Big ...

LARAMIE – Unless one is a scientist or a teacher of the sciences, it would be understandable if a person may not be familiar with spiral galaxies. Danny Dale, a professor of physics and astronomy and ...