Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...
Learn about the thermal light echo, observed by NASA, that causes intricate layers of interstellar gas and dust to emit an ...
In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have ...
A team of astronomers led by David Sand, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona Steward Observatory, has uncovered three faint and ...
Astronomers suggest that galaxies might be anchored to massive, invisible dark stars composed of 'fuzzy' dark matter, which ...
By combining data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and the Gemini South telescope, astronomers have investigated three ...
Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos as NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace ...
The traditional dark matter hypothesis, that it's some form of cold, massive particle that hardly ever interacts with itself ...
Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early galaxies formed.