According to modern cosmology, most galaxies are surrounded by faint, extended halos of light called LSB structures. These ...

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

Some of the darkest objects in the universe are also among its brightest beacons, lighting up entire galaxies while their ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

Razor-thin chain of 14 galaxies may be the biggest spinning structure yet ...

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...

A team of computational astrophysicists has developed a simulation that explains the behavior of matter around black holes.

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

More than half a million satellites are planned to launch by the end of the 2030s, and simulations suggest they will have a severe impact on space-based astronomy ...