New simulations are providing the most realistic pictures yet of how galaxies formed and evolved from the beginning of time. Revealing ...

Cold gas does not look dramatic at first glance. Neither does dust. Yet those two quiet ingredients sit at the center of a ...

Understanding the universe as a whole requires simulations on cosmic scales. An international team of astrophysicists, with a ...

New simulations show that early ultraviolet light controlled whether ultra-faint dwarf galaxies could form stars.

A Chinese-led international team has released the largest-ever cosmological simulation, named "HyperMillennium," offering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new simulation released by NASA’s Ames Research Institute reveals a stunning vision of the evolution of a galaxy. Blue influx ...

Image: Snapshots of the time evolution of a collision of two spiral galaxies with black holes at their center from a computer simulation. Color indicates temperature and brightness the gas density.

In collaboration with the US' Georgia Institute of Technology, researchers from Maynooth University in Ireland have unveiled a new computer simulation that mirrors early universe conditions, ...

Simulations of faint dwarf galaxies reveal early universe conditions Astronomers have used high-resolution simulations of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies to probe the 'climate' of the early universe. Led ...

Astronomers have found the boundary of star formation in the Milky Way's spiral disk — and it's not as far out from the ...

The Milky Way may not have a sharp edge, but scientists have now found where its star-forming activity largely comes to an ...