For years, many major simulations handled galaxy gas with a workaround. They stopped it from cooling below about 10,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New calculations suggest collapsing gas clouds can build galactic magnetic fields far faster than standard theory predicts.

Black holes formed before the Big Bang may still exist as cosmic fossils, offering new clues about dark matter and the origin ...

The image is created using observations in six different colour bands, allowing scientists to study different features of the ...

A massive, dust-packed galaxy seen just 400 million years after the big bang is leaving astronomers scratching their heads.

Small, dim, and almost invisible, dwarf spheroidal galaxies are packed to the brim with something we can't see:. They're like ...

Citizen science project uses Euclid telescope data to find gravitational lenses. Public helps identify light-bending galaxies ...

New simulations show that early ultraviolet light controlled whether ultra-faint dwarf galaxies could form stars.

Astronomers have discovered the edge of the Milky Way’s star-forming disk, revealing that most new stars form within 40,000 ...

If you’ve ever been to a place with minimal light pollution and looked skywards at nighttime, you’ve probably seen our Milky Way galaxy. It manifests as a thick, hazy band of stars streaking across ...