New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

A new simulation released by NASA’s Ames Research Institute reveals a stunning vision of the evolution of a galaxy. Blue influx gases, white stars and red satellite galaxies are shown moving thousands ...

A fully formed spiral galaxy from when the Universe was only 1.5 billion years old was found by Indian scientists using ...

MUSE survey, an international team of astronomers has inspected a nuclear star cluster of the nearby large spiral galaxy ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

A team of researchers at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) has created a new simulation of early galaxy formation. The simulation allows us to get a fascinating, albeit brief ...

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...

Indian scientists have discovered a 13.8-billion-year-old galaxy that resembles the Milky Way. The galaxy has been named ...

Indian astronomers have discovered 'Alaknanda,' a remarkably well-formed spiral galaxy, just 1.5 billion years after the Big ...

In a feat of galactic archeology, astronomers are using ever more detailed information to trace the origin of our galaxy—and to learn about how other galaxies formed in the early stages of the ...

How does galaxy location drive galaxy structure and star formation? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly ...

A region of glowing gas in the Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way galaxy, NGC 3576 is located about 9,000 light years from Earth. Such nebulas present a tableau of the drama of the evolution of massive ...