Study reveals that the Euclid telescope may be underestimating the number of barred galaxies due to limitations in its images ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full history of a galaxy outside the Milky Way using chemical clues. By ...

Extragalactic archaeology has come of age, with astronomers for the first time reconstructing the history of a spiral galaxy.

The team behind Europe's Euclid space telescope just published the world's most extensive simulation of the universe, which ...

Astronomers have detected ordered magnetic fields in galaxies so young that conventional models struggle to explain how those ...

The Milky Way isn't just drifting through a giant void in space untethered, but is embedded in a sheet of dark matter like a ...

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

By reading the chemical “fingerprints” of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...

An artist's impression shows the giant spiral galaxy NGC 1365 as it collides and merges with a smaller companion galaxy, ...