Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...
A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's ...
An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland has produced the first ...
Runaway stars are stars that move through space at unusually high speeds, drifting away from the places where they were born.
Scientists have detected ancient microwave signals from the universe's early days. These signals, over 13 billion years old, offer insights into the Cosmic Dawn. They reveal how the first structures ...
The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The perplexing Milky Way 'twin' dates to 1 billion years after the Big Bang, and ...
Researchers from the South Pole Telescope project team looked deep into the center of the Milky Way, discovering powerful, surprising bursts of light from two accreting white dwarf systems.