The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

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, ...

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.

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

Astronomers know that most galaxies house supermassive black holes in their centers, from the largest galaxies down to small dwarfs. They also know that when supermassive black holes are actively ...

Galaxies appeared not just as distant objects, but as vast systems shaped by gravity, time, and violence. Deep-field images revealed thousands of galaxies in a single patch of sky, each containing ...

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, ...

Take a look at a wide variety of galaxies in the Universe, and you'll find a vastly different set of stories. The largest ones are giant ellipticals, many of which haven't formed any new stars over ...

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 ...