In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers led by Kristen McQuinn, a scientist at the Space ...

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study supermassive black holes expect to find binary systems – two supermassive ...

New ground- and space-based infrared observations are giving astronomers a better handle on the true populations of red ...

The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...

Using the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), astronomers from Italy and Germany have observed a group of galaxies designated NGC ...

"It has a striking evolved morphology: a quiescent-like classical bulge + star-forming stellar disk + grand-design spiral ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

New findings from the James Webb Space Telescope contradict traditional theories about early galaxy formation, revealing ...

Data from several other astronomical surveys also aided the discovery team. As the name implies, dwarf galaxies are low-mass realms with low stellar populations, which means they are also rather ...