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

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 ...

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its infrared instruments on the spiral galaxy NGC 628, producing the first spectroscopic survey of young star clusters still embedded in the dust clouds where ...

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 jellyfish galaxy in question. The dashed circles mark the four extra-planar sources that are identified in the galaxy’s tail. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal. Astronomers ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of the early universe. While studying the distant galaxy cluster known as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An international team of researchers, using the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona, has discovered a faraway galaxy named KiDS ...

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 ...

Scientists observe a dramatic collision between two planets, offering insights into the formation of Earth's Moon 4.5 billion years ago.