Throughout cosmic evolution, although dwarf galaxies are individually small, they are numerous and serve as the fundamental ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how ...

Astronomers have long used the Milky Way as a benchmark for studying galaxy formation and evolution, assuming that its structure and behavior are typical. However, a groundbreaking series of ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

Scientists are still trying to understand how galaxies formed and evolved from primordial gas clouds into the organized ...

Scientists have used machine learning to dramatically speed up the processing time when simulating galaxy evolution coupled ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has performed deep and high spectral ...

Mar. 28, 2024 — The ALMA radio telescope has detected more than 100 molecular species, including many indicative of different star formation and evolution processes, in a galaxy where stars are ...

IU astronomer’s discovery poses challenge to galaxy formation theories by SpaceRef April 12, 2009. Click to share on X (Opens in new window) ...

Researchers have found that the supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*, is spinning so rapidly that it is altering the fabric of space-time around it.