Learn how galactic archaeology uses chemical clues to uncover how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years.

Astronomers have long argued that dark matter is the invisible scaffolding that holds galaxies together. Without its immense ...

The oxygen in a galaxy does not sit still. It spreads, thins out, piles up, and leaves behind a record of where stars formed, ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full history of a galaxy outside the Milky Way using chemical clues. By ...

A blazing supermassive black hole can influence far more than its own galaxy. Scientists found that quasars emit radiation strong enough to shut down star formation in nearby galaxies millions of ...

Spread the loveAstronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery concerning the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby galaxy that has long served as a reference point in the study of galaxy formation ...

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...

A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system. It contains stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas and dust, and a ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy whose asymmetric appearance may be the result of a galactic tug of war. Located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, the ...