An international team of astronomers, led by Weichen Wang of the University of Milan, Italy, discovered a massive and unusually quiescent galaxy, aptly named the “Red Potato.” Observed with the ...

Astronomers have discovered a previously hidden "cosmic fuel tank" in an infant cluster of forming galaxies. This vast reservoir of cool molecular gas is found in the protocluster known as SPT2349-56, ...

A furious rate of star formation discovered in a distant galaxy shows that galaxies in the early Universe developed either much faster or in a different way from what astronomers have thought. “This ...

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

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

In the vast darkness of the early universe, a spiral of light named Zhúlóng offers a new glimpse into cosmic history. This galaxy, shaped like our Milky Way, formed just a billion years after the Big ...

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 ...

A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in ...

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 ...

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

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

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) infrared astronomical satellite AKARI [1] continues its mission to map the entire sky in infrared light. AKARI commenced the mission’s All-Sky Survey ...