Astronomers have puzzled for decades over how massive elliptical galaxies appeared so early in cosmic history. The standard ...

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

Scientists have discovered that active supermassive black holes don't just kill their home galaxies, but can also eradicate ...

Recent research has uncovered a barred spiral galaxy formed 11.5 billion years ago, making it one of the earliest known galaxies that contains a stellar bar. The research was supported by Yingjie ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of dusty, star-forming galaxies at the far edges of the universe that formed ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

Intense radiation emitted by active supermassive black holes—thought to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies—can slow star growth not just in their host galaxy, but also in galaxies ...

Astronomers studying galaxy evolution have long struggled to understand what causes star formation to shut down in massive galaxies. Although many theories have been proposed to explain this process, ...

New findings from a large survey of galaxies suggest that star formation is largely driven by the supply of raw materials, rather than by galactic mergers that trigger sudden bursts of star formation.