Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...

It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion ...

A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the charming Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the ...

Scientists have discovered two rare white dwarfs—which are among the dimmest stars in the universe—that feature changes in their surface composition caused by magnetic fields. This brings the number ...

Two galaxies that closely neighbour the Milky Way are at war, with the larger tearing the smaller galaxy to shreds. The Magellanic Clouds are two dwarf galaxies, visible from the Southern Hemisphere, ...

In recent years, astronomers have been able to study the motion of the stars in the galaxy with outstanding precision. And there’s certainly something odd going on with the SMC. A different group ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have found compelling evidence of a dark matter-deficient dwarf galaxy, FCC 224. This ultra-diffuse galaxy is located on the ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

The unusual galaxy was profiled in two complimentary studies. The first study, led by Doctoral Candidate Yimeng Tang of the University of California, Santa Cruz and published in the journal ...

A team of researchers at Nagoya University has discovered evidence that the Small Magellanic Cloud is potentially being torn ...

The oldest naked eye star yet found still provides stellar theorists with key data on the earliest epochs of our Milky Way.