Learn how galactic archaeology uses chemical clues to uncover how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years.

Magnetic fields that stretch across thousands of light-years should take a very long time to organize. Standard dynamo theory ...

The research, led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian, shows how researchers can study the past of ...

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

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When astronomers look deep into the early universe, they don’t expect to see fully developed cosmic objects but small galaxies, ...

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

A blazing supermassive black hole can influence far more than its own galaxy. Scientists found that quasars emit radiation strong enough to shut down star formation in nearby galaxies millions of ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just been announced. A team ...

WASHINGTON — For the first time ever, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a "failed galaxy," a massive, starless cloud of gas and dark matter that never became a galaxy at all, according to ...

Published in a new study available in pre-print on arXiv, this discovery of NGC 1052-DF9 adds significant weight to the ...