Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as ...

Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a mid-sized galaxy, but did you know that there is another dwarf galaxy that orbits around ...

Dwarf galaxies often appear to align mysteriously around their host galaxies. A new study proposes an unprecedented ...

The discovery challenges the Planet Nine hypothesis, which suggests a massive, unseen planet is influencing the orbits of distant TNOs. While most extreme TNOs show a clustered pattern that supports ...

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.

However, the USTC researchers have revealed that dark matter halos hosting dwarf galaxies also exhibit halo bias, which is ...

A team of astronomers recently uncovered an exceptionally small and faint dwarf galaxy located approximately 3 million light-years away from us. This discovery, named Andromeda XXXV, could well shake ...

In fact, scientists didn't really expect that stars would even be able to still form at all in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, an image of which the James Webb Telescope recently captured in ...

A supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) may be the source of nine stars zooming through our galaxy – a surprising hint that dwarf galaxies can host large black holes.

A blue dwarf galaxy pitched through the bullseye's galactic neighborhood 50 million years ago, leaving behind nine glittering rings. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in ...

The small galaxy, the dwarf galaxy IC 2574, is located about 12 million light-years away (1 light-year is the distance light travels in one year, approximately 9.46 trillion kilometers ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the unusual star-forming timeline of dwarf galaxy Leo P. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Kristen McQuinn Most small galaxies that stopped making ...