Cold gas does not look dramatic at first glance. Neither does dust. Yet those two quiet ingredients sit at the center of a new effort to build a far more realistic picture of how galaxies formed. They ...

There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the known universe, but scientists still have a lot of questions about how galaxies form, grow and even die. Science Trek is available to stream on ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies could not yet exist. Two astronomers from India have identified a ...

University of Michigan astronomers were part of a team that have helped gain shocking insight into a "scientifically unique" ...

(Nanowerk News) Understanding how galaxies formed requires studying the neutral gas that fueled early star formation, but detecting this component is difficult. In a recent study, an international ...

Scientists still don’t know where ghostly particles called neutrinos originate. A distant galaxy could be a potential source.

Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The newly discovered structure exhibits ...