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

The oxygen in a galaxy does not sit still. It spreads, thins out, piles up, and leaves behind a record of where stars formed, ...

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

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

For the first time, the full biographical arc of a galaxy beyond our own has been reconstructed — not from light curves or morphological snapshots, but from the chemical ...

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

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a new red galaxy at a redshift of approximately ...

How fast can a galaxy build ordered magnetic fields spanning thousands of light-years? Existing theories say several billion ...

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 ...

Scientists observe a dramatic collision between two planets, offering insights into the formation of Earth's Moon 4.5 billion ...