Our universe does host life, but it’s not the most optimal universe for life. Published in 1962 by American astronomer Frank ...

Astronomers studying FCC 224, an ultra-diffuse galaxy, have discovered luminous, overmassive globular clusters, providing key ...

Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...

The team started by looking deeply into the past. Since the stars detected by the team with the telescope are about 13 billion years old, they can serve as "fossil records" of star formation that ...

Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...

Uncover the mysteries of galaxies with Rutgers University's new findings on Leo P, a small galaxy that started and stopped ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new compact galaxy group using the Atacama Large ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic ...

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Dannerbauer NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found evidence that supermassive black holes suppress star formation in maturing galaxies. The team used the James ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...