It's 7 billion years ago, and the universe's heyday of star formation is beginning to slow. What might our Milky Way galaxy have looked like at that time? Astronomers have found clues in the form of a ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

A lot is known about galaxies. We know, for instance, that the stars within them are shaped from a blend of old star dust and molecules suspended in gas. What remains a mystery, however, is the ...

A dwarf galaxy 100 million light years away is being stripped of its crucial star-forming gas, and it seems that the cosmic ...

The irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The tenuous disc of the galaxy is threaded through with ...

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Wellesley, Massachusetts — Stunning new photographs by a Wellesley College-led team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The ...

The galaxy cluster MACS-J0417.5-1154 is so massive it is warping the fabric of space-time and distorting the appearance of galaxies behind it, an effect known as gravitational lensing. This natural ...

It's a fun question to tackle because it lets us dig into the messy, complicated, beautiful process of galaxy formation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

This image of the Sculptor galaxy will give astronomers detailed information on a variety of stars, nebulae and galactic regions. European Southern Observatory If you happen to find yourself in the ...

Frozen molecules hiding in the shadows of another galaxy have revealed new secrets about cosmic chemistry. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers detected complex organic ...