News Archive / Tagged: galaxies

• Scientists studying role galactic collisions have in star formation

  Laurel KornfeldMarch 2nd, 2019

  Scientists working on a survey over the last 10 years are trying to understand why some galactic mergers trigger star formation while others shut it down.

• New mission given the go-ahead to search for beginning of universe and possibly life

  Laurel KornfeldFebruary 17th, 2019

  A new space probe designed to observe hundreds of millions of galaxies to gain a better grasp on how the universe evolved has just been given the greenlight. This new spacecraft is also being developed to search for water and organics, the elements necessary for life as we know it.