There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the known universe, but scientists still have a lot of questions about how galaxies form, grow and even die. Science Trek is available to stream on ...

Galaxies follow a mysterious cosmic blueprint, new research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Our universe is full of ...

Cold gas does not look dramatic at first glance. Neither does dust. Yet those two quiet ingredients sit at the center of a new effort to build a far more realistic picture of how galaxies formed. They ...

Why do galaxies look so different from one another? From beautiful blue spirals like our Milky Way to golden ellipticals like the Messier 87? ESA’s Euclid space telescope is beginning to answer this ...

The most realistic picture yet of how galaxies formed and then evolved from the beginning of time has been revealed in a suite of new and unique audiovisual simulations. These data, accepted for ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international team led by Nikolaus Sulzenauer and Axel Weiß from the Max Planck ...

Astronomers may have uncovered the origins of the mysterious “little red dots,” some of the strangest galaxies seen in the early universe. These tiny but brilliant objects, discovered by the James ...

Our universe is full of mysteries, but few are as perplexing as the dark, tiny galaxies that hover around larger ones like the Milky Way. Small, dim, and almost invisible, dwarf spheroidal galaxies ...