Galaxies may not be as simple as "young and blue" or "old and red." A new idea from astrophysicist Charles Steinhardt proposes a third type: red star-forming galaxies that break the mold. These galaxi ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have, for the first time, directly detected the merger of star clusters at the ...

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This ...

These galaxies come in many forms. Some are filled with young, bright stars, while others have stopped forming new ones. The ...

Astronomers thought they’d made a mistake when stars in a nearby galaxy didn’t seem to rotate — but the unusual pattern ...

Researchers mapped a far-infrared landscape brimming with nearly 2,000 galaxies. There may be "hidden galaxies" lurking just ...

Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of 'hidden' galaxies that could hold the key to unlocking some of the universe's secrets. If their existence is confirmed it ...

They were also able to characterize many of these small conglomerations of stars and determine the distance to these galaxies, as well as assess their stellar masses and the type of environments ...

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This detection confirms the feasibility of this formation route for nuclei in dwarf ...

Late-type dwarf galaxies include those still forming stars. These are often called dwarf irregulars or blue compact dwarfs, depending on how active their star formation is. On the other hand ...