NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer (IXPE) just studied a white dwarf for the first time ever. The study, according to ...

NASA have released a photograph capturing a vivid image of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy just 160,000 light-years away ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the Milky Way’s closest companions, continues to astonish astronomers with its ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the unusual star-forming timeline of dwarf galaxy Leo P. Most small galaxies that stopped making new stars in the early universe never resumed ...

Contained within a small galaxy located 5.3 million light-years away are big clues about how stars can form. In fact, scientists didn't really expect that stars would even be able to still form at all ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a small dwarf galaxy called IC 3430 that’s located 45 million light-years away. This galaxy is classified as both a dwarf galaxy, because of its small ...

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. Markarian 178 (Mrk ...

The majority of the thousands of galaxies we’ve discovered out in the universe fit into relatively well-defined categories: spiral galaxies like our Milky Way, elliptical galaxies which are long and ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — An astronomer studying small irregular galaxies has discovered a remarkable feature in one of them that may provide key clues to understanding how galaxies form and the ...

Astrophysicists for the first time have calculated the original mass and size of a dwarf galaxy that was shredded in a collision with the Milky Way billions of years ago. Reconstructing the original ...

An intermediate-mass black hole lurking undetected in a dwarf galaxy revealed itself to astronomers when it gobbled up an unlucky star that strayed too close. The shredding of the star, known as a ...