Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...

Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual "ingredients," raising ...

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station were not only treated to a sight from Earth's atmosphere recently but also ...

New research presented at an astronomy meeting shows that active black holes are more common in dwarf galaxies than earlier ...

With the James Webb Space Telescope, our view of the early Universe is becoming clearer, but a recent observation contradicts ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a remarkably detailed image of a nearby dwarf galaxy. The near-infrared view reveals the deepest glimpse yet into a stellar panorama that could offer ...

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas that births suns and planets, and it lies within a halo of dark matter, the ...

It may come down to a coin toss as to whether the Milky Way collides with the Andromeda Galaxy within 10 billion years. While scientists have previously reported that a convergence was certain, an ...