NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has caught yet another spectacle in a newly released image of a "cosmic tornado" forming billows of gas and dust that appear to be crowned with a spiral galaxy ...

One of the first verified predictions of general relativity is the gravitational deflection of starlight. The effect was ...

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we observe the universe, we're looking at a three-dimensional space projected ...

The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb Space Telescope. This rare cosmic overlap forms a swirling ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...

Get ready to be amazed by the breathtaking beauty of spiral galaxies! NASA has shared stunning images of these cosmic wonders ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

The JWST's image of the Big Wheel galaxy, a massive rotating disk 11.7 billion light-years away. Its spiral stretches 100,000 light-years, making it the largest confirmed galaxy of its time.