Astrophysics breakthrough: new evidence unravels the mystery of how massive elliptical galaxies form, shedding light on their ...

Galaxies crashing together 12 billion years ago could have caused the universe’s biggest galaxies to form, according to new ...

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It's the first time that scientists have witnessed clumps of stars assembling to form a galaxy like our own Milky Way and ...

In an extraordinary breakthrough, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a galaxy gleaming with the birth of stars, ...

Astronomers have discovered that large flows of cold gas created by collisions between galaxies in the early universe may ...

Researchers have discovered that old elliptical galaxies can form from intense star formation in early galaxy cores. This ...

Researchers have identified the birth sites of massive elliptical galaxies, providing new insights into their formation which ...

The Anthropic Principle—stating that the universe we live in is fine-tuned to host life—was first proposed by Brandon Carter ...

The discovery of the birth sites of giant, elliptical galaxies comes from analyzing data from the Atacama Large ...

Researchers have used the ALMA telescope and found old elliptical galaxies in the universe can form from intense star formation within early galaxy cores.