Typically, summer internships are about gaining work experience and networking. But for Midshipman Olivia Rae Achenbach, her ...

Uncover the mysteries of galaxies with Rutgers University's new findings on Leo P, a small galaxy that started and stopped ...

The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that the Coma Cluster of galaxies is 38 million ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

"We have a measurement like this for only three other galaxies — all isolated from the Milky Way — and they all show a similar pattern," said Kristen McQuinn, the principal investigator on the ...

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, cosmic 'ghost towns,' offer new insights into the early universe and star formation.

Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.

In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers led by Kristen McQuinn, a scientist at the Space ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.