Astronomers have identified a massive galaxy that barely rotates, even though it existed when the universe was less than 2 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers discovered a third galaxy with almost no dark matter, offering new clues about galaxy formation and the ...

Magnetic fields that stretch across thousands of light-years should take a very long time to organize. Standard dynamo theory puts that timeline at roughly 5 to 10 billion years in galaxies. Yet ...

A galaxy appears to be missing the invisible substance thought to hold these objects together, further challenging long-held ...

In the early universe, the first galaxies began to take shape roughly a million years after the Big Bang. Within these young systems, stars formed from vast reservoirs of cold gas, gradually building ...