About 4.5 million years ago, a great cosmic dog kicked past our Solar System – and its effects may still be seen today.

Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, a team of researchers found more than 280 galaxies stretched in a line ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...

This image by Taiwanese photographer Shang Yao-Yuan shows that you don't need the latest kit to capture the cosmos ...

We live inside the Milky Way, but we don’t know where it actually ends. This is the stunning truth about our galaxy’s hidden ...

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

The vantage point at Cerro Pachón, with its dark skies and high-altitude clarity, enhances the richness of the image.

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

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

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

Pune researchers discover 'Alaknanda,' a massive spiral galaxy from the universe's infancy, challenging previous cosmic evolution theories.

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