The object in question is a cosmic filament, a thread-like chain of gas that is about 5.5 million light-years in length and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a new kind of galactic portrait, revealing a luminous thread of gas and newborn ...

Razor-thin chain of 14 galaxies may be the biggest spinning structure yet ...

Although they have been ignored until recently by cosmologists, dwarf galaxies might answer some of scientists’ questions about star formation and the development of the universe, said Evan Skillman, ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

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.

Images taken using the Hubble Space Telescope have given astronomers clues about the formation and growth of the first galaxies, suggesting that early star formation happened in violent bursts. A team ...

Astronomers studying galaxy evolution have long struggled to understand what causes star formation to shut down in massive galaxies. Although many theories have been proposed to explain this process, ...