The team has concluded these galaxies would only exist if star formation were proceeding at a higher rate than predicted. "Many processes in galaxy evolution have a tendency to introduce a rate ...

A galaxy has been discovered in a place where it shouldn't exist, baffling astronomers with ... typical of galaxies like the ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy.

Life on Earth could not exist without carbon ... drift idly through space until they are dragooned for new uses. For galaxies like ours, which are still actively forming new stars, these atoms ...

Not only does this complicate the common model of early galaxy evolution, but it makes future high-resolution observations of similar galaxies an imperative. Thankfully, the ALMA observations didn ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the unusual star-forming timeline of dwarf galaxy Leo P.

Some galaxies were spotted ... are dominated by their black holes and not by their stars. Despite the early analysis suggesting that they were too big to exist, once a growing black hole is ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. How do galaxies form? For decades, that's been a mystery, but it may have finally been solved by a group of astronomers using ...