Astrophysics breakthrough: new evidence unravels the mystery of how massive elliptical galaxies form, shedding light on their ...

Ancient galaxies have irregular shapes due to intense star formation from cold gas flows and galaxy collisions, as revealed ...

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It's the first time that scientists have witnessed clumps of stars assembling to form a galaxy like our own Milky Way and ...

Astronomers have discovered that large flows of cold gas created by collisions between galaxies in the early universe may ...

Why is your discovery of the Firefly Sparkle galaxy important? Telescopes like JWST are essentially time machines. Since ...

Astrophysicists find the birth sites of gigantic elliptical galaxies which they say gives new clues about how they were formed. The galaxies look like bulging footballs and how they were created ...

QUESTION: Do all galaxies form in the same way? No. The formation and evolution of galaxies are influenced by various ...

Researchers from the University of Southampton, in collaboration with specialists from around the world, suggest that their ...

star-forming galaxies rich in "metals" — astronomer-speak for any element heavier than hydrogen and helium. Such metal-rich environments may be conducive to the formation of magnetars ...