We typically think of the Oort cloud as scattered ice balls floating far from the sun, yet still tied to it gravitationally.

It’s a barred spiral galaxy, which means it has a central bar ... In this main image, different bands of X-rays from Chandra (orange, green, purple) have been combined with radio data (gray).

Due to a recent study, the JWST has found a new spiral galaxy that contains all the elements of modern galaxies, and only 1.13 billion years after the Big Bang. Zhulong has a shape similar to the ...

The stars are coloured red, green, and blue, while the gas and dust, captured by Webb, are darker red. The third photo in the series if of another galaxy, the spiral galaxy called NGC 3627.

Also called M31—and our closest giant neighboring galaxy at just 2.5 million light years away—Andromeda is home to at least a trillion stars. Like the Milky Way, it’s a spiral galaxy ...

JWST has spotted a huge, ultramassive galaxy as it appeared 12.8 billion years ago, so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design ...

The new image, which was released Jan. 16 by the European Space Agency (ESA), is made up of approximately 600 different fields of view and shows the spiral galaxy "almost edge-on," or tilted 77 ...

The result is a stunning panoramic view that provides the most detailed image yet of the entire galaxy; its science-packed features could revolutionize our understanding of how spiral galaxies ...