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 ...

China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has achieved a significant breakthrough in astronomy.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A snapshot of the simulation. (Schaye et al., 2026) Long ago, a time existed before galaxies had drawn themselves together out of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international team led by Nikolaus Sulzenauer and Axel Weiß from the Max Planck ...

Learn how galactic archaeology uses chemical clues to uncover how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years. Astronomers can now do what wasn’t possible before: reconstruct the life story of ...

If you’ve ever been to a place with minimal light pollution and looked skywards at nighttime, you’ve probably seen our Milky Way galaxy. It manifests as a thick, hazy band of stars streaking across ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New COLIBRE simulations show how cold gas and dust help galaxies evolve from the early universe to today. (CREDIT: Monthly Notices ...