A group of astronomers has discovered a "barred" spiral galaxy from 11.5 billion years ago. That's only 2 billion years after ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...

Cosmologists may have to rethink galaxy evolution theories as more mature and orderly galaxies are found in the early universe. Imagine archaeologists excavating an old cave where they believed they'd ...

A beautiful spiral galaxy 60 million light-years from Earth could help astronomers better understand our own Milky Way because of a trademark central bar-like structure. The galaxy, NGC 1365, is one ...