A new study finds that two early-universe objects thought to be faint quasars are actually extraordinarily luminous galaxies ...

Utilizing high-resolution three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulations and a detailed supernova physics model run on supercomputers, a research team led by Dr. Ke-Jung Chen from the Institute ...

Star formation in galaxies is closely linked to molecular gas. In the distant past, when galaxy interactions were more common ...

Star formation across the universe has fallen dramatically over the past 4.5 billion years, but astronomers have uncovered a ...

An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky Way—already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. The ...

Across most galaxies, the mass of the central supermassive black hole tracks the mass of its host galaxy in a strikingly ...

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.

Galaxies are making far fewer stars even though much of their atomic hydrogen reservoir remains surprisingly intact.

See how elliptical galaxies in the distant universe were born, as new research gives astronomers a closer look at galactic collisions and star formation. Among all space mysteries, the creation of the ...

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, ...