Astronomers have detected ordered magnetic fields in galaxies so young that conventional models struggle to explain how those ...

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The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

The Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) theory suggests that most galaxies are low-mass dwarf galaxies, many of which orbit larger galaxies like the Milky Way. More broadly, the LCDM represents our best ...

New telescope instruments are pushing galaxy observation far beyond what was possible a decade ago. Advances in space telescope technology now allow astronomers to study billions of galaxies across ...

Most messages are press releases about astronomical discoveries—okay, scratch that; most of them are spam, but science announcements are an easy second place. But I also get questions from readers ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just two years of operations, but how can it see a galaxy 33.8 billion light-years away in a universe that is only 13.8 billion years old ...

Galaxy Y1 shines thanks to dust grains heated by newly-formed stars (circled in this image from the James Webb telescope). Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, chaotic bundles of turbulent gas, churned up by huge gulps of intergalactic gas, ...