In research published today, Australian scientists have taken a critical step towards understanding why different types of galaxies exist throughout the universe. The research, made possible by ...

The distribution of normal matter precisely determines gravitational acceleration in all common types of galaxies, a team led by Case Western Reserve University researchers reports. The team has shown ...

New simulations show that early ultraviolet light controlled whether ultra-faint dwarf galaxies could form stars.

Early galaxies were star-forming machines, furiously gobbling up gas and spitting out stars. A new model helps explain why ...

By tracking individual stars and exploding supernovas, astronomers discovered the strength of early ultraviolet glow ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, built ...

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Peering back in time more than 7 billion years, a team of astronomers using a powerful new spectrograph at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has obtained the first maps showing the distribution of ...

The vastness of space allows for a huge variety of structures to pop up all over the place. Even things we think of as one-and-done objects—like galaxies—come in quite a few shapes and sizes. Follow ...

A treasure trove of molecules has turned up in two galaxies that we see as they were over 12 billion years ago, revealing information about how the ancient realms form stars. One of the distant ...

Galaxies are vast gravitational structures that harbor billions to trillions of stars, as well as, interstellar gas, dust, and nebulae as well as the dark matter that binds them together. Our solar ...