Astronomers studying galaxy evolution have long struggled to understand what causes star formation to shut down in massive galaxies. Although many theories have been proposed to explain this process, ...

When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are the same. Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star ...

These black holes drive the formation and evolution of a galaxy, ... his team used JWST to report the discovery of a massive ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Canada and Switzerland have discovered a new galaxy, which ...

The most distant known example of what astronomers call a “jellyfish galaxy” has been spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space ...

A distant galaxy 12 billion light-years away shows signs of being a jellyfish galaxy, with trailing streams of gas caused by ...

Observations made by Chile's ALMA telescope have revealed a gigantic quasar quenching a galaxy's star formation — a first-of-its-kind observation in the early universe.

Astronomers call the cessation of star formation in a galaxy "quenching," and SAGA's findings directly connect quenching to the environment around the host galaxy.

Nushkia Chamba is a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Ames Research Center who specializes in studying the outskirts of galaxies, as well as galaxy formation and evolution in general. Here, she helps ...