The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. A team had found a small, strange galaxy that appeared to ...

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the universe’s earliest galaxies were brighter than expected. The excess light is a byproduct of the galaxies releasing incredibly high amounts ...

GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...

Astronomer and Queen guitarist Brian May teams up with astrophysicist Derek Ward-Thompson to bring the cosmos to 3D.

Researchers at the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) made the discovery about galaxies by studying the gas distribution that helps create stars. Using CSIRO's ASKAP radio ...

A team of astronomers using a Yale supercomputer have determined for the first time that galaxies in denser environments are as much as 25% larger than their counterparts in less dense regions of the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since beginning operations last year, the James Webb Space Telescope has provided an astonishing glimpse of the early history of our universe, spotting a collection of galaxies ...

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Barred spiral galaxies, like the one pictured, were not expected to exist more than 7 billion years ago. Credit: NASA / ESO / JPL-Caltech / DSS Astronomers previously thought it took billions of years ...

In the intriguing realm of star-forming galaxies, the key factor isn't the total amount of gas but rather its strategic distribution within the galaxy. Researchers at the International Centre for ...

Like a photographer clicking random snapshots of a crowd of people, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a view of an eclectic mix of galaxies. In taking this picture, Hubble’s Advanced Camera for ...

The red shade shows the atomic hydrogen gas content of the galaxy, overlaid on the optical image. The atomic gas that is outside the white circle does not contribute significantly to the formation of ...