Astronomers have puzzled for decades over how massive elliptical galaxies appeared so early in cosmic history. The standard ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

An international team of astronomers has performed multi-wavelength observations of the nearby Araish galaxy to investigate ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow ...

According to the prevailing “cold dark matter” theory of the evolution of the universe, every galaxy is surrounded by a halo of dark matter that can only be detected indirectly by observing its ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features an uncommon galaxy with a striking appearance. NGC 7722 is a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation ...

Human classification, from celestial bodies to living organisms, often starts with their morphology. Depending on how something looks, it gets a certain label. This is all well and good until you find ...

The vastness of space allows for a huge variety of structures to pop up all over the place. Even things we think of as one-and-done objects—like galaxies—come in quite a few shapes and sizes. Follow ...

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New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early Universe.