The Ursa Minor Dwarf is a small galaxy, a loose aggregation of stars, and a satellite of the Milky Way. Its gravitational ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way's galactic neighbors, a ...

The way that Hubble images are produced is similar to how the James Webb Space Telescope uses filters and combines these to create stunning pictures of otherwise invisible objects, a process which ...

A mysterious cluster of 60 stars may be just another Milky Way star cluster, or it may be one of the smallest galaxies ever ...

"No existing galaxy formation model within our standard cosmological paradigm can currently explain how this galaxy came to be." ...

J1343+3644 is a compact dwarf galaxy in the process of merging, at a redshift of approximately 0.02, with an r-band absolute magnitude of -19.17 mag. The galaxy has an overall fairly round shape ...

These small galaxies are somewhat hard to detect in or near the plane of the Milky Way (thus, the uncertainty about the number); one such galaxy is the Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy. It was discovered ...

Periodic radio emissions have been discovered in a binary system of white and red dwarf stars with an orbit time of 125 ...

From gravel-size meteoroids to mountain-size asteroids and even visitors from other star systems, space is packed with ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter. First spotted in 2024, FCC 224 is a dwarf galaxy that boasts a dozen luminous, tightly bound ...

They are loosely bound star groupings without dark matter. But for a type of small dwarf galaxy known as Ultra-Faint Dwarfs ...