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

By reading the chemical “fingerprints” of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new ...

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 team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

Astronomers have detected ordered magnetic fields in galaxies so young that conventional models struggle to explain how those ...

Magnetic fields that stretch across thousands of light-years should take a very long time to organize. Standard dynamo theory ...

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

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 ...

The study of galaxies and their star formation processes remains a cornerstone of modern astrophysics. Galaxies are the fundamental building blocks of the Universe, each hosting a complex interplay of ...

An international team led by UNIGE shows that red and dead galaxies can be found only 700 million years after the Big Bang, indicating that galaxies stop forming stars earlier than predicted by models ...

The research could shed light on how black holes vomit out matter and how this influences their home galaxies.