Astronomers at Durham University have made a major advance in understanding how galaxies formed and evolved in the early ...
Cold gas does not look dramatic at first glance. Neither does dust. Yet those two quiet ingredients sit at the center of a new effort to build a far more realistic picture of how galaxies formed. They ...
A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star formation and black hole growth at "cosmic noon"—a mysterious epoch 2–3 ...
Somewhere in the southern sky, light that left a small galaxy roughly 13 billion years ago finally landed on the detectors of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. When astronomers split that light into ...
A faint dwarf galaxy drifting 45 million light-years from Earth may have joined one of astronomy’s strangest clubs. It belongs to a tiny set of galaxies that seem to exist without dark matter.