In research published today, Australian scientists have taken a critical step towards understanding why different types of galaxies exist throughout the universe. The research, made possible by ...

Another batch of the ‘impossible’ galaxies turned out not to be standard galaxies at all, but a new type of object that ...

Two galaxies in the early universe, which contain extremely productive star factories, have been studied by a team of scientists. Using powerful telescopes to split the galaxies' light into individual ...

A large survey, made with ESO’s VLT, has shed light on our Galaxy’s ancestry. After determining the chemical composition of over 2000 stars in the four nearest dwarf galaxies to our own, astronomers ...

The mission’s first large set of survey data is a treasure trove for clues about the history of the universe. Reading time 2 minutes The Euclid space telescope is on a mission to map more than one ...

If this galaxy is typical, then the study, published today in Nature Astronomy, indicates that our galaxy is already interacting with its closest neighbour, Andromeda. Where does a galaxy end and deep ...

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the 'inside-out' growth of a galaxy in the early universe, only 700 million years after the Big Bang. Astronomers have ...

Astronomers noticed something odd while reviewing radio data from distant space. Three bright signals appeared close together ...