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

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have ...

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

By combining data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and the Gemini South telescope, astronomers have investigated three ...

The researchers hope their landmark discovery will prompt follow-up observations of magnified stars in both the Dragon Arc ...

"This discovery poses a challenge to the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model, which may struggle to account for the formation of such small, aligned groups of galaxies in isolated environments." ...

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

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

The researchers hope their landmark discovery will prompt follow-up observations of magnified stars in both the Dragon Arc galaxy and other distant galaxies. "These findings have typically been ...