The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially adopted its new galactic archaeology mission, Arrakihs, set to launch by the ...

Astronomers have discovered a huge reservoir of cold molecular gas, the direct fuel for star formation, in REBELS-25, a ...

A massive galaxy in the early universe seems to be growing itself toward ruin. While it churns out new stars at a furious ...

Above a certain threshold, galaxies stop growing , no matter how much raw material they have on hand. The question is: what ...

Astronomers have employed the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to perform deep ...

If a galaxy runs out of gas, it will stop forming stars and die. Present-day galaxies have had more than 10 billion years to ...

Astronomers have discovered a "galaxy-killing wind" that may explain why there are far more massive "dead" galaxies than ...

Astronomers have identified 2 unusual galaxies, FCC 224 and FCC 240, that appear to contain little or no dark matter, despite ...

New findings from a large survey of galaxies suggest that star formation is largely driven by the supply of raw materials, rather than by galactic mergers that trigger sudden bursts of star formation.

The formation and evolution of galaxies are governed by the processes that assemble their mass and regulate the conversion of gas into stars. Over cosmic history, galaxies grow through the accretion ...

Ring galaxies and polar-ring galaxies offer natural laboratories for investigating how dynamical processes shape star formation. In collisional ring systems, a near head-on encounter launches a ...

Scientists are turning to the beautiful and famous Whirlpool Galaxy to look for areas where stars could eventually be born. By mapping out the presence of particular chemicals, they hope to learn ...