Learn how galactic archaeology uses chemical clues to uncover how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years.

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full history of a galaxy outside the Milky Way using chemical clues. By ...

Magnetic fields that stretch across thousands of light-years should take a very long time to organize. Standard dynamo theory ...

By reading the chemical “fingerprints” of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new ...

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

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University ...

In the vast darkness of the early universe, a spiral of light named Zhúlóng offers a new glimpse into cosmic history. This galaxy, shaped like our Milky Way, formed just a billion years after the Big ...

The study of galaxies and their star formation processes remains a cornerstone of modern astrophysics. Galaxies are the fundamental building blocks of the Universe, each hosting a complex interplay of ...

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...

The research could shed light on how black holes vomit out matter and how this influences their home galaxies.