Cosmic archeologists have used the James Webb Space Telescope to excavate ancient disk galaxies that tell the story of how ...

The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

A new study using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has helped to answer a continuous question in astronomy ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...

The most distant known example of what astronomers call a “jellyfish galaxy” has been spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space ...

Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...

Disk galaxies, like our own Milky Way galaxy, commonly consist of both a thick and thin disk of stars—each with different ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope continues to reshape our understanding of the universe by providing unprecedented views ...

An international team of researchers has analyzed 111 JWST images of distant edge-on galaxies, or ones where the alignments ...

Many galaxies, including our own Milky Way, are characterized by a flat, extended, rotating stellar disk. These disk galaxies ...

Most disks observed were about 30 astronomical units wide, roughly 30 times the Earth-Sun distance. The presence of intricate structures in such early systems implies a parallel evolution of infant ...

Astronomers have discovered the first step in planet birth, finding hitherto unseen structures in 78 planetary disks in the ...