A galaxy may look calm and stable from far away, but new research suggests it can actually behave in surprisingly chaotic ...

Astronomers who simulate galaxies do not always get the same result, even when they start from identical conditions. New ...

Billions of years ago, a young spiral galaxy began to grow in a crowded part of the universe. It pulled in gas and small ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...

Using a new simulation, Johns Hopkins University researchers have reconciled predictions about neighboring galaxies with what has been observed by astronomers and high-powered telescopes. The results ...

This animation shows the simulated evolution of a galaxy over 200 million years. While the simulations look very similar with and without the machine learning AI model, the AI model performed 4 times ...

Spread the loveThe mysteries of our Milky Way galaxy continue to captivate astronomers and space enthusiasts alike, but recent findings challenge long-held beliefs regarding its formation. A ...

This simulation shows both how stellar bars form (left) and the bar-driven gas inflows (right). Stellar bars play an important role in galaxy evolution by funneling gas into the central regions of a ...