Magnetic fields that stretch across thousands of light-years should take a very long time to organize. Standard dynamo theory puts that timeline at roughly 5 to 10 billion years in galaxies. Yet ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. How do galaxies form? For decades, that's been a mystery, ...

Astronomers have detected ordered magnetic fields in galaxies so young that conventional models struggle to explain how those ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international team led by Nikolaus Sulzenauer and Axel Weiß from the Max Planck ...

Scientists have found a remarkably small yet bright object from the early universe that doesn’t make sense in our existing models of how stars and galaxies formed, even our own Milky Way. That means ...

James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared view capturing some of the oldest galaxies ever observed, revealing new insights into early galaxy formation and cosmic history. Pixabay, WikiImages The James ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. A team had found a small, strange galaxy that appeared to ...

If you’ve ever been to a place with minimal light pollution and looked skywards at nighttime, you’ve probably seen our Milky Way galaxy. It manifests as a thick, hazy band of stars streaking across ...

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A whole universe of hidden galaxies lies just beyond what the eye can see. Thanks to a new generation of space telescopes, astronomers are now revealing these distant, dim worlds—some no bigger than a ...