Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

Spanish astronomers have conducted deep optical imaging of an isolated dwarf galaxy known as NGC 6789. Results of the new ...

Rubin Observatory’s first image reveals a vast stellar stream behind galaxy M61, likely formed from a disrupted dwarf galaxy, exposing hidden cosmic structures.

The Draco dwarf is a faint, star-poor but dark-matter rich galaxy. Here we see Hubble zooming in on some of its stars. | Credit: NASA/ESA/Eduardo Vitral, Roeland van der Marel, Sangmo Tony Sohn, ...

A dwarf galaxy 100 million light years away is being stripped of its crucial star-forming gas, and it seems that the cosmic ...

The ESA's Euclid space telescope has been in space for just over a year, investigating some of the deepest mysteries of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study of diffuse dwarf galaxies is challenging the prevailing galaxy formation model within the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) framework, leading to a proposed new model of dark matter.

This really is a galaxy far, far away. — -- This really is a galaxy far, far away. A hidden dwarf dark galaxy was discovered four billion light years away from Earth by astrophysicists at ...